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"My family was on vacation at the time of the girl’s death. On our trip, we saw so many buildings with the gemstone the girl was named after in their name, as well as jewelry with the gemstone. A few months after the daughter’s death, my mom’s friend went to a mediator show just to find some sort of peace. The mediator frantically started calling my mom’s friend's name in the middle of the show, and my mom's friend said that a spirit wanted to talk to her. The mediator then started saying all sorts of details about the dead girl’s life, including how she hears her dad talking to her out loud on his way to work every morning (the dad had told literally no one that he did that). That made my mom’s friend and my mom believe even more in the afterlife."

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