The last email from a typhoon Haiyan Victim

She was in disbelief after learning that she had won a complimentary stay for a suite room and would like to spend her 7th anniversary with her fiancé with a 4 days and 3 nights stay in one of the participating hotels.


"Hi XX team,
I am so happy to found out that I won! Thank you so much for choosing my entry! I've read the mechanics and rule no. 7 states................
I was able to check XXXX booking site and would like to spend our seventh anniversary with a 4/D/3N stay in a XXXX..................

Regards,
XXX "


Those lengthy emails went back and forth for almost a month just to sort this out and during the final stage of finalizing the affair regarding to the prize she'd unexpectedly won, we congratulated her warmly at the final mail communication and it went un-replied ever since.
From all the emails she wrote you can tell the whole thing was full of excitement and so much looking forward to her anniversary celebration when we were at the middle of processing the prize conversion into complimentary suite stay in that particular hotel in Hong Kong. We never failed to receive all her humble responses to each and every single email we sent, which we then found it so unusual she didn't even thank us upon completion of her request to the last email.

It was another afternoon when we received a call from hotel informing us about this member didn't turn up as planned. As it was a complimentary suite stay for 3 nights and the date had been fixed for over a month we can't work out why she failed to turn up.She can't have been that old to not remember her 7th anniversary big day celebration afterall. We assumed it might be some internal communication issues that we have all the things muddled up or she might be experiencing some flight delays or something.

Without wasting a single second we sent an email to her right after in the hope of finding the reason why, to which someone replied, with her email address, after a while :

"Dear XXX,

This is XXX's fiance. She wasn't able to inform you of the reservation cancellation as she has already passed away last November 8, 2013 due to super typhoon Yolanda.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

XXX "

Reading his email with sadness that brings me almost to tears, my heart sinks completely.

Silent as this air, as heavy as the earth, sensing a feeling of profound sorrow from each and every word he wrote in this email.

Feeling the most pain of losing the love of his life, that's the 24 hours of his life he will never able to overturn and bring her back.

No 7th anniversary for them anymore. 

He no longer able to walk her down the aisle making her the happiest bride in this earth anymore.

Their love deserve endless but physically defeated by the unknown.

Expect nothing. Appreciate everything,

While your loved ones are still with us,

Because we will, definitely one day, just a matter of time before the relationship,

defeated by the unknown,

the inevitable death that will drift two persons apart, so far away...forever.

Not only for her, may all the victims who lost their lives in the tragedy rest in peace at the other world.

Try your best to help those who really need,

You can help by donating as much as you can to alleviate their sufferings.

And now you can see...how fortunate we really are.