A friend, Hermes Quijada sent this e-mail last week. It's your turn to read this piece.

"This is a story from University of the Philippines (Diliman) about a young college girl who passed away last month. Her name was Summera. She was hit by a dump truck. She had a boyfriend named Arif. Both of them were true lovers. They always hung on the phone.

You could never see her without her cell phone. In fact she also changed her phone from Smart to Globe, so both of them can be on the same network, and save on the cost and get good network coverage. She spent half of the day talking with Arif.

Summera's family knew about their relationship.

Arif was very close with Summera's family. (Just imagine their love). Before she passed away she always told her friends: "If I pass away please bury me with my cellphone."

She also said the same thing to her parents.

After her death, people couldn't carry her coffin, I was there. A lot of them tried to do so but still couldn't, everybody including me, had tried to carry the coffin, the result is still the same. Eventually, they called a Feng Shui Master. He took a stick and started speaking to himself slowly.

After a few minutes, he said "this girl misses something here." Then her friends told the Master about her intentions to bury her with her phone.

He then opened the coffin and places her phone and SIM card inside the casket. After that they tried to carry the coffin. It could be moved and they carried it into the van easily.

All of us were shocked. Summera's parents did not inform Arif that Summera had passed away. After 2 weeks Arif called Summera's mom.and said: "I'm coming home today.

Cook something nice for me. Don't tell Summera that I'm coming home today, I wanna surprise her."

Her mother replied: "You come home first, I wanna tell you something very important." after he came, they told him the truth about Summera.

Arif thought that they were playing a fool. He was laughing and said "don't try to fool me - tell Summera to come out, I have a gift for her. Please stop this nonsense."

Then they showed him her grave. He said... "It's not true. We spoke yesterday. She still calls me.

Arif was shaking. Suddenly, his phone rang. "See this is from Summera, see this..." he showed the phone to Summera's family.

All of them told him to answer. He talked using the loudspeaker mode. All of them heard his conversation. Loud and clear, no cross lines, no humming. It was the actual voice of Summera and there was no way others could use her SIM card since it was nailed inside the coffin.

They were so shocked and asked for the Feng Shui Master's help again. The Master brought his co-masters to solve this matter. He and his co-masters worked for 5 hours.

Then they discovered one thing…"Sa GLOBE, saan ka man magpunta...POSIBLE!" End of story.

P.S. Never in my life have I read such an email...I wasted ten minutes because of this. It's your turn now.

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