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WHILE thousands will flock to cemeteries to remember their departed loved ones on All Saints' Day on November 1, Mariah Seenath's relatives will visit the site where her body was found over a month ago to commemorate what would have been her 14th birthday.

At Seenath's grandmother's Cipeiro Road, Friendship Village home on October 31, her uncles Krishna and Shiv were busy adorning a metal cross with flowers. The red, white, silver and yellow petals were selected to stand out against the green background of where her body was found. Blue flowers were incorporated, representing her favourite colour. It will be part of a memorial shrine to honour the life taken too early.

"It's unbelievable. It's hard to cope with, but they said don't question God. It in the hands of God. It's just to manage," Krishna said as he sat on the front porch, describing how they were coping.