"My husband, Javier, 45, has gone into our daughter Jackie's bedroom every day since she passed, because he feels closer to her there. He recites a prayer that they used to say together each night: "Angels East, angels West, North and South. Just do your best. Watch me and protect me while I rest." The words bring some comfort, but the room should be filled with joy, warmth, and life as it once was."
"The walls are painted purple and pink, her favorite colors, and a string of LED lights surrounds the ceiling. They shine bright to this day. Javier, a glazer and talented in art, painted a unicorn on one of the walls. She loved it, especially because her dad used fluorescent paint, so it glows in the dark. Beneath it, there's a fairy swinging on a heart."
"She loved it, especially because her dad used fluorescent paint, so it glows in the dark. Beneath it, there's a fairy swinging on a heart. Recordings of Jackie's voice are inside two Build-A-Bears. She watched the cartoon "Miraculous," set in Paris, and was obsessed with the city. Her pink and white comforter is covered with miniature Eiffel Towers, and she had other Paris-themed knickknacks, such as an Eiffel Tower-shaped box to store her jewelry."
Gloria Cazares, a 42-year-old home healthcare nurse from Uvalde, Texas, lost her nine-year-old daughter Jackie in the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24, 2022. Jackie’s bedroom remains unchanged, preserved as she left it the morning she went to school. Her husband enters the room daily and recites a nightly prayer they once shared. The room features purple and pink walls, LED lights, a fluorescent-painted unicorn by her father, two Build-A-Bears with Jackie’s recorded voice, Paris-themed decor tied to her love of the cartoon Miraculous, and other personal keepsakes. Gloria appears in the Netflix short documentary All The Empty Rooms.
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