10-Year-Old Uvalde Victims Who Texted 'I Love You' to Each Other at Bedtime Will Be Buried Side by Side

Annabell Guadalupe RodriguezandXavier James Lopezwere the best of friends. Attending the fourth grade at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the 10-year-olds would pass notes in class and get together for barbecues with their families.

They had pictures of each other. They became so close that they started texting each other “I love you” each night before bedtime.

“She had a big old crush on him,” Annabell’s mother, Monica Gallegos, toldABC News. She said that she and Xavier’s mother, Felicha Martinez, found the relationship amusing. “Me and Felicha would laugh, like, ‘How do y’all know about love?'”

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But Annabell and Xavier’s lives were both cut short on May 24 when agunman burst into their classroomand shot them both in an attack that left 19 students and two teachers dead. The 10-year-olds, who were both in the same classroom as teacherArnulfo Reyes, did not survive.

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“I’m not ready,” Gallegos told ABC News as she made the final preparations for her daughter’s funeral.

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“He would make things for her, he would write notes for her,” Reyes told ABC. “It brings a smile to your face just to think they really loved each other.”

source: people.com