• Story: Bittersweet (Updated Finished!)

    [Sad] This is actually an older one converted to docs format. It's the infamous Pinkie Pie gets diabetes story.  Pinkie sure does have a lot of stories that are infamous at this point.  Anyway it's primarily sad, but kind of grimdark. Originally Written by Anon, but converted to docs by nukeiffum
    Description: Diabetes is a terrible thing, and everypony has their own way of dealing with loss..
    Bittersweet
    Bittersweet Part 2 
    Bittersweet Part 3
    Bittersweet Part 4
    Bittersweet Part 5
    Bittersweet Part 6
    Bittersweet Part 7
    Bittersweet Final (New!)
    Epilogue (New!)
    Alternate Ending (New!)

    299 comments:

    1. I haven't cried like this since I watched Titanic for the first time...

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    2. why is this posted under grimdark? this isn't scary, it's just plain sad.

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    3. Wait... in part 5, did the wolf do to Rarity what I thought it did?

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    4. Try listening to "Here Without You by 3 Doors Down and/or "Leave The Memories Alone" by Fuel while reading the final chapter. Guaranteed tears. :')

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    5. Bloody hell... an excellently done tear jerker... agonizing, but beautiful.

      You deserve a medal...

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    6. I b'awwed so much :C

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    7. Wow. I think we have the series finale on our hands here.

      Seriously, this is the sort of story which should be used when the executives decide "Right, this is going to be the final season of the show."

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    8. WHY DOES MY SISTER AND DAD HAVE TO BE IN!!
      i can feel the tears but i can't cry due to my "Image" to my family. =P
      btw play this whilst reading the last paragraph
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQYqPo4NDXQ&feature=related
      it fits it as a "In loving memory" song :'D
      D4SHTH3R4INB0W

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    9. CONFOUND THESE PONIES

      THEY DRIVE ME TO BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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    10. I teared up.
      I didn't Cry, But It definitely Touched me.
      It brought thoughts to my mind... Personal ones and i think it helped me come to a few realizations about things. Small but notable Thoughts. Thank you for giving me some great reading material. Even though you gave me some heartache, You big meanie peanie Pants.

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    11. Bitter Sweet IS right!
      The couldn't be a better title For the Note this story Ends on. The alternative, Although Preferable to the regular one; Contradicts That.
      Manly Tears... Manly Tears.

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    12. @Anonymous
      God dammit Dude. I already cried Enough today. Thanks for making me Even more dehydrated...

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    13. I don't like the alternate ending.

      I actually enjoy any sort of story that would be labelled "Tear Jerker" over tvtropes.
      This story, being well written and strongly belonging to that category, did its job wonderfully. I enjoyed it a whole lot, while crying some here and there.
      It also had tons of other things to offer, like action with the wolves wich was also quite right. It even had some little quirks of humor, that were enough to be funny in themselves while not too present, breaking the general mood.

      The "true end" in itself was a little upmood with the letter to Celestia. Some would take it badly, but I see in it the general theme of any MLP FiM episode, matching the story with the universe even more.

      The alternate ending was keeping me frombeing left in cries, since it was much less sad in its conclusion. But I'll blame myself since I knew : I shouldn't have read it.

      The only thing I see, wich is kind of minor, is that you brung out the Applebloom matter to light quite a few time, but I didn't see it resolved before we were thrown at the following year's "party". So hey, unless my eyes were too busy crying to read right, I think you missed this.

      Overall, it's a good kind of tear jerker. That, AND a most courageous attempt, as it kills one of the most regarded main character of the show from.
      Wich is why I find myself a little sad at the existence of the alternative ending.

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    14. Meh. After writing my comment, I now find out there is a spin-off that settle the Applebloom matter.

      http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-apple-blossom.html

      So I guess I'll take back my earlier comment about it.

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    15. Not ganna cry... Not ganna cry... Not... ganna...


      OH WHO AM I KIDDING? BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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    16. i hate you so much right now. i don't cry when it comes to death and funerals, but this...this was to much. i found this in the grim dark section i wasn't prepared for this i was expecting horror. i can barely look at pinkie's smiling face without a tear coming to my eye. though i do thank you a million times over for the alternate ending it did take some of the sting off from the blunt knife you stabbed into my heart. now if you don't mind i have to go on a search for something that will cheer me up. man I hate being such a softy.

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    17. I don't think I've ever cried so much at a fic before, the whole thing at the end where pinkie comes back to help them out one last time and say a final, proper goodbye was so touching, also I thought derpy's speech in part 2 was oddly beautiful in that you knew exactly what she was saying
      Muffins and diamonds to the author

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    18. Manly tears have been shed.

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    19. Holy shit. Best fic I've read. I almost cried, and totally DAWWW'd a few times. I loved it.

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    20. Kimba the White LionJuly 21, 2011 at 12:39 AM

      I was very disappointed with this. It started off with an incredible premise, Pinkie Pie has diabetes. It's an incredible hook and the first chapter was very well done. Then it went downhill. I felt everypony's reaction was good, but the way you showed how they coped wasn't. Then, it felt like you were taking 2 stories and putting it into one, rather than trying to work with simply "how does everyone cope". I really felt the whole wolves thing served as nothing but to lead into Pinkie Pie's final speech.

      I do come from a background where I haven't lost anyone close to me, so I probably couldn't relate with anyone like others did.

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    21. Its going to take me awhile to think of Pinkie Pie without crying ;-;

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    22. @Anonymous
      >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJwgAflY9tg

      ...I love and hate you so much right now, Anon. ;_;

      BTW I just had to THINK about the last chapter while listening to that song to tear up. Then I actually read it while listening to the song again...

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    23. Manly tears, here.

      Also... I know it's tasteless and out of place, but when Rarity mentioned Sweetie Belle in Chapter 2, my first thought was 'Cutie Mark Crusader necromancers! yay!'

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    24. Wow that has got to be one of the saddest things I have ever read. I haven't cried that much sence I saw grave of the fireflies. Thank you very much I needed that.

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    25. I was pleasantly surprised to how very well written this story was, and I teared up many times. Amazing job.

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    26. I read through the entire thing and hardly felt anything.

      Hugh.

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    27. This story made me change my mind about killing myself.

      Thank you.

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    28. Just finished part 3.
      Could be a good story. Reserving judgement until I see how it ends (both endings).
      Wanted to say that the backstory you added with Fluttershy doesn't mesh with her sudden discovery of animals in "The Cutiemark Chronicles". Were you just overlooking to make the story flow better (although I think you could have worked around that), did you forget that bit of continuity, or did you write this before that episode came out?

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    29. SPOILERS!



      Part 6: Looks good. Nice to see that Gilda, underneath it all, really DOES care. Then again, she is a jerk, not a coward (who would have ignored the situation). Only two sections left doesn't quite feel like enough to pull out a good (not necessarily happy, just well-written).

      "Final" part: Huh... I thought you had genuinely reversed the virtues of all of the Elements of Harmony. Rainbow Dash abandoning her friends. Applejack lying. Twilight returning to her pre-Episode One isolation. Rarity thinking only of her own feelings in wanting Pinkie Pie back... I guess Fluttershy wasn't cruel (even in a passive-aggressive way or whatever). Unless, of course, it turns out that Rarity was deluding herself as to her motivations.
      *Keeps reading this part, heading onward to the last two thirds.*
      OOHHHHKAY!!!
      Well, I would have expected them to DISCOVER the missing component rather than summoning it, but this makes more sense. The request at the end brought tears to my eyes. An excellent and totally unexpected Meaningful Echo ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeaningfulEcho ).

      Will post separately for the epilogue and alternate ending.

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    30. Epilogue: Interesting (but not surprising) to find out what happened to the Wolves. I don't know that Rainbow seeing Pinkie Pie was quite the way to go, but the symmetry may justify it.


      Alternate Ending: Not nearly as good. However if I decide to use this as a basis for the fanfic I have had in mind for a while, then I will use this alternate version, simply because I want my work to be something that other people can build on and having Pinkie Pie dead isn't conducive to that.


      Overall: I could have done without the Pinkie Pie Rainbow Dash shipping, but you can't please everyone.

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    31. OH GOD MY TEARS ARE CRYING.
      Why didn't you put a warning on that!?

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    32. Not gonna lie, you made this pony's heart bleed.

      All of my stars. All of eet.

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    33. I have diabetes too.. guess its only right if i read it :|

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    34. I have diabetes too.. guess its only right if i read it :|

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    35. Hey, way to plagiarise Scrubs within the first chapter.

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    36. I... I have nothing to say. That's... BEAUTIFUL.

      Suddenly, I feel like there's a empty hole in my heart and stuff.

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    37. Some parts of this are ripped off from my life. Not Scrubs.

      I loved it, though :')

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    38. I wept a little every single chapter...Except the last one, I was holding my Pinkie Pie toy crying my freaking eyes out. Do you know how long its been since I've cried?? Years.

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    39. @Anonymous
      chill dude at the top of the first page of the first chapter, "Originally from an anonpost which contained elements from the Scrubs episode “My Screw Up”
      Transcribed and continued by nukeiffum"
      Love the story.

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    40. Absolutely amazing. I choked up a few times (even at Derpy) and was thoroughly entertained. Awesome job.

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    41. i was listening to dashie in the sky (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/music-little-octavia-dashie-in-sky-with.html) when i read the first part of this amazing story. tears flowed. kudos to you.

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    42. Bravo! Bravo! That was great litterature. I loved it. It was so touching, so heartwrenching.

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    43. Very well-written and made me tear up. My only complaints were the forced brony culture references. I mean, really? Calling Pinkie random four times and saying 20% cooler three? Anyway, Pinkie is my favorite so this was even more sad for me. But I loved how the characters reacted, except that the message was a little off. It seemed to be saying that it's not ok to be sad when someone dies, but stifling your emotions is the fastest way to become a bitter person. The real lesson here is to not be sad alone, but to share it with your friends. Anyway, the alternate ending was really forced too, it just makes no sense and doesn't fit, so I'm not a fan of it. But I'm pretty sure you just wrote it as a service for people who can't stand sad endings. All-in-all, a great story and easily 5 stars.

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    44. @Anonymous Damn me and my morbid curiosity. I read a sad fanfic before I go back to watching the show (I still haven't seen them all) and I just choke up whenever I see Pinkie Pie, or cringe when cupcakes are mentioned.

      Also, there's a sentence in part 6 where Rainbow says "You don't me!" that needs to be fixed.

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    45. I feel faint.

      I've never truely, truely, CRIED over anything that I've read.

      but this.

      I'v gotten musty eyed before, but nothing like this. *applause*

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    46. @kirby

      Especially the part where two wolves kidnap elliot and force her to find buried gems.

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    47. I made it to about part 6 of this story before my eyes started tearing up a little bit. This story is 10x more powerful than Cupcakes was... What it lacks in gore, it WAY more than makes up for in raw emotion. This is one of the saddest things I have ever read in my life. Seeing everypony's reactions to Pinkie Pie's death, ESPECIALLY Rainbow Dash's, Apple Bloom's, Rarity's, and yes, even Gilda's, really tugged at my heartstrings.

      Also, I'd like to give you props for actually making Gilda not come off as a complete and utter selfish jerk. You, my friend, are responsible for one of the very rare instances where I actually LIKE Gilda as a character. It couldn't have been easy to pull off, but you did it.

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    48. I just made it to the end of this story, and my eyes are tearing up AGAIN. This really is one of the most depressing stories I ever read, yet the ending is really as heartwarming and beautiful as it is tragic. When I got to the point where Pinkie Pie says her final goodbyes to her friends, thanking them all and telling them how much she loved them, that's about where I started fighting back tears.

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    49. I don't like you. I did not read the story. All i read was the description and my eyes are wet. I don't think i can bring myself to read this for a while. All i know is that i don't like you for uploading such a heartbreaking story :(

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    50. I have always been anti-fan-fiction...until I read this story. When I read the intro the water in my eyes blurred my vision. This was a very heart-warming story, especially when Pinkie Pie came back to her friends if only for a brief moment. I cried hard, even when Gilda got hold of the letter and was yelling at Rainbow Dash. I felt all the emotion, I envisioned all the characters in my mind as they appeared in the show. This is written very wonderfully. Keep making us cry :,)

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    51. I cried so bad. I cried buckets and I made noises. Damn, all of them were sad, a great story. Great. Sad, sad, sad. Even the alternate ending.

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    52. I love the alternate ending. I am going to pretend that that's what actually happened. Pinkie is my favorite pony, and I can't stand to see her die.

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    53. Ah hell.... This story.. this story!

      Cried my heart out for the first time in a very long time now. Probably cleared up alot of things that I've had bottled up. Thank you author, this really is an amazing story!

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    54. I haven't even read the epilogue, and I'm still crying 5 minutes after I finished the last part. I am an 18-year-old male.

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    55. chapter 6 has to be my favorite. i loved the conflict between Gilda and Rainbow. seeing Gilda's' soft side.

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    56. i loved chapter 6 the best. seeing rainbows' and Guildas' soft side. always a quote i remember from just that section. thank you so much, scrubs ain't got nuthin' on you!

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    57. *bawls*
      *continues bawling*
      This was so, SO sad. I don't know what to do but cry... dammit.

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    58. Alright, after a day of moping around sadly, I realized just why this hit my heartstrings so hard... my grandmother died from diabetes, and my great-grandmother died before that from something else, much like in Pretty in Pink. Combined, those two stories have managed to do to me what hasn't happened since the funerals... I cried over it. Thank you sir, for writing this, and I'd like to thank the author of Pretty In Pink as well... You have made me realize the value of loving in the moment.

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    59. http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/36745?search=bittersweet thought i should post this cause my friend made me read it before reading the fic.

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    60. Not a single tear was shed.


      MORE LIKE A HUNDRED!!! *sobbing still*

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    61. >This happened to pop up when reading the final Chapter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEXEyjtqoM

      >Buckets of tears...

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    63. I read this story last night and actually teared up. I'm not a writer or anything, but I can be eloquent, I have an urge to make my own version of this, and I already have an epilogue formed in my head. It wouldn't be word for word, but I just don't want the situations to be too much of a rip from this one. If I have the internet's blessing, i'll try and flesh out my version. My focus is shot, so no promises though.

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    64. This story is beautiful. It didn't make me cry, but that's only because I'm not very physically expressive. On the inside, I was tearing up. Such a wonderful fic, I don't know how anyone could hate it.

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    65. Now, I normally take pride in being a heartless bastard. Being immune to the pain of death, even when my parents died, I never shed a tear.

      but this...for the first time in my life my eyes are bright read from crying, when my girlfriend walked in and saw me she started freaking out which helped my mood...a bit

      bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! PINKIE PIE COME BACK TO ME!!!! I LOVES YOU!!!

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    66. not even going to pretend manly sobs weren't had.

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    67. Derpy could write phrases for fortune cookies with dialogue like that.

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    68. Giggle at the ghostie scene is simply devastating :`(

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    69. You know, I think this is a perfect example of how ponies have helped me with life. I never really got over everyone I have lost until I read this story. After a solid hour of bawling my eyes out, I finally felt better about it and was able to let it go. Thank you for this. I needed it.

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    70. I cried a good bit. That alternate ending fixed it all though! And their ability to see her again using the elements! This was a great story. If I could give it more than five stars I would.

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    71. @Anonymous

      nothing can make me cry..
      so i thought.

      havnt cried like that for a VERY long time... dont know why but i just did

      i love this so much, one of the greatest stories ive ever read.

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    72. I cried five times.
      ENTIRE FANBASE, IS BABIES

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    73. man, I really started tearing up at the end it was a good read though.

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    74. BEAUTIFUL MAN. JUST.... *SNIFF* Beautiful man.. j-just.. oh god, can someone hand me something?.. I got a little something in my eye.

      this was amazing to read, especially the ending.
      There was only the minor cursing that threw it off a bit to me, but besides that, it was really cool to read.

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    75. Oh. My. God. Utterly magnificent, I don't think I'll ever read a fanfic that moving again. I read Cupcakes, a fanfic even /b/ is horrified of, and I shrugged it off in an instant. THIS utterly ruined me. My soul was broken and my mind was destroyed. But the ending... Just... I love it. Everything about it. This is going to make me start really reading fics again, because this was perfect.

      OH, and just a tip, when reading the last chapter, roughly last few pages, listen to Smile, Smile, Smile. Heart shattering.

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    76. Just by the comments alone, I'm gonna have to pass on this one.

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    77. I listened to "Be Patient" by smidi while reading this and I almost didn't make it through the first chapter. At first I thought it was a flashback before she binged herself to death, than I figured out what had happened, and my heart sank. I lost my grandma to cancer and everytime I mull this story through my head I can't help but think about her. I'm a 24 year old guy that rides a harley I'm wering a freaking skull t-shirt that say "ride fast = live hard" and i'm crying over ponies.....I hate you lol. It did seem kinda strung out right before they got to the temple but my eyes stayed watery through the whole thing.

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    79. I had to watch two episodes of mlp just to reassure my self pinkie wasn't really dead......I still hate you lol

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    80. The current banner just makes things worse. All that chocolate.

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    81. omg... i cried... i cried a lot... i think this is the only story that can compete My Little Dashie... i cant choose which is sadder...

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    82. OH LAWD HAVE MERCEH, PRAISE JEEBUS AND HIS ALMIGHTY WISDOM ON THESE PONI3S AS HE COLLECTS THEIR SOUL, PRAISE JEEBUS AS HE SO RIPELY TAKES OUR BELOVED ONE WITH DAT DIABEEETUS, PRAISE JEEBUS AS THOSE POOR WOLVES ARE ABOUT TO GET RAEP'D BYE MOLESTIA

      CAN I GET AN AMEN? AAAAAAHHHHHHMEEN.

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    83. I don't understand how the heck people can dislike this story. It truly is bittersweet, but it's the most beautiful and touching thing I have ever read. I cried so hard. Thank you so much for writing this :)

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    84. In the finally Pinkie's like: TO SOVNGARDE MY FRIENDS!!!
      Bahahahaha

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    85. This made me cry. I heard of this story long, LONG ago. I wrote it down in my fanfic list. But I only just got around to it. Somehow, this gave me a realisation. I need friends. I'm not certain how this story made me realise that, it seems irrelevant. But I really need to go out there and find friends. I'm lonely. I'm so, lonely. :'C I need a hug, I need friends! I'm crying harder than I ever did for MLD and bittersweet combined! I'm sorry for the long comment... Nopony will see it anyway... But I just needed to write it down, you know the feeling...

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    86. Man this is a super sad story
      after i watch her singing the smile song and then this what happened to her?!
      the part she says to RD "I love you" made me cry soo much )':

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    87. “Shut up!” Rainbow Dash yelled desperately. “You don’t me!..."

      Fix this pls.

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    88. This has to be said.

      This touched my heartstrings what with Pinkie's Death and the events leading up to the finale.

      Plus the lesson in the last page felt really well done with a valuable lesson. I was suprised at the timng of "Did somepony order a party?" it never felt so satisfing to have read that line.

      I'm not sure of the author still reads comments regarding this work but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this fantastic story ;)

      If i may add my minor complaints where did Applebloom wander off to? (I realize that this will be covered in another story, but...) and the alternative ending. It was a low point of this story but regardless it was good details.

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    89. Is it just me, or was there some PinkieDash in there?

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    90. Every time when I click the link that takes me to this page and see Pinkie's face like that, I get a sad.

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    91. Best mlp fanfic I've ever seen. I cried but also was happy in the end, because of Pinkie's last appearance.

      Thank you

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    92. Finally finished at 6:30 AM. Worth every hour and tear.
      Also, I don't even care that I'm posting this with my full name right and picture here.

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    93. I don't get it....in the alt. ending did pinkie pie survive? If not that was a pointless alt.

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    94. So sad you did a great job with that story though

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    95. I cried the whole time, even at the happy parts. It's a really well made story and I recommend it to people. :') I read everything, even the alternate ending. *SOB* IT'S JUST SO SAD AND BEAUTIFUL!!!

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