She dropped to her knees, not being able to think straight when her mom told her that her Great Aunt has passed away.

Jayme Singh who is an eighth was so young when two of her beloved family members passed away around the same time, one being her Great Aunt. Singh being at that age at the time made a huge factor of her going through this.

“I think after like during my grandmother, when my grandmother passed away I think I was still 8. But then I think my birthday passed so I was 9, When my great aunt passed away, it was pretty traumatic, to be honest, and yeah. I think it'd be good if I actually saw like a therapist, but I never did.”

Even when she was so heart-broken, they couldn’t give her Great Aunt a proper funeral because they spent all their money on her grandma’s funeral. “ I felt so bad for my Great Aunt because her loved ones weren’t giving the proper time to mourn for her… I felt like the unluckiest person in the world.” Singh said.

Nothing helped her cope with her loss, she just had to move on without any help.

“Nothing really did help me. I think I found it just, I think I kind of just like continued on with my life,” Singh said. “I never really had much time to actually cope with it.” s

When she was moving on, her best memories with her Great Aunt would swirl in her head. “Whenever I went over to her house, she had a little Go Kart and we used to just drive around her town in the go-kart and it was just really fun,” Singh said.

Even with all the memories in her head, she tried very hard to move on.

“For the few weeks you know, for like the first week, I had been thinking about how she, I wish she was here but then I think after like a week or so." Singh said. "I still thought about her but, I just realized that she was probably in a better place."

Singh tried to make this not interfere with her school but she wasn’t as energetic as she used to be but then she finally laughed for once in a while.

“I finally smiled with my friends at recess,” Singh said.

Singh had finally realized that her Great Aunt was somewhere better after all of this.

“I just realized that she was probably in a better place," she said.

written by Naomi Cho