The Candle Girl

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"Can I have a candle please?"John choked on his words as he requested the girl behind the counter. He was standing in the one and only small shop outside the graveyard and was still grief-stricken, even after ten days of his mother passing away.Cancer had been cruel on both of them. Within six months of diagnosis, it had taken away his beloved mother, and his happiness went away along with her. Having lost his father many years ago and being a bachelor, left him all alone in this whole wide world. Since her demise, John had been coming to the cemetery