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A mother of four was found dying on her kitchen floor by her six-year-old daughter the night before the family was due to pick up their beloved new puppy.
Rita Manera, 41, was preparing to pick up her niece’s Maltese-Shih Tzu puppy the next day when she suffered a devastating brain hemorrhage on March 31.
Adelaide’s mother was rushed to ICU but was declared brain dead as her heartbroken family struggled to come to terms with her sudden death.
Manera’s niece, Emily Egglestone, said her beloved aunt was not meant to die so soon.
‘He finally got the life he wanted. She finally had her babies,” she said.
Rita Manera was preparing to buy a Maltese Shih Tzu from a local breeder when her six-year-old son found her collapsed on their kitchen floor after suffering a brain hemorrhage on March 31.
“At night I lie there and imagine this invisible wall or something between her kids and she’s stuck behind it screaming for me to come back,” she said. The advertiser.
Manera had just celebrated her 41st birthday with her partner of 18 years, Adrian Williams, and their children: Jack, 6, Amelia, 5, Koby, 2, and Evie, 1.
Her last Facebook post was a photo of everything she had given to the puppy her family was so excited about.
Egglestone confirmed they now have the puppy, which they named Leo.
“The children are so in love with him and the older ones explain to the younger ones: ‘he’s mom’s puppy and now we’re going to take care of him,'” she said.
Mrs. Manera loved the color purple, elephants and Christmas, but most of all she loved her family.
Egglestone remembers her aunt as someone who was happy all the time and said that if someone lived on love, she would have lived forever.
Egglestone said she remembers her aunt as someone who was happy all the time and said if someone lived on love, she would have lived forever.
She installed a GoFundMe page to help his uncle, who is now raising the children alone.
“As a family, all of our hearts are absolutely broken,” she wrote.
“Losing a loved one is never easy, but losing Rita so suddenly and without warning has shaken everyone to their core.
‘Those beautiful children did not deserve to lose their world.
“Suddenly she just left and the silence she left is so strong.”
