Lilly Puri went back home at 11:30 p.m., laughing, hugging and kissing her mother. Lilly was small, about 80 pounds. “She was all over me,” her mother Preeti Puri recalls.
That morning, Lilly said she would sleep out during the night. “You’re not going to sleep out. You’ll come home. You love your bed too much,” Puri knew her daughter all too well. But what Puri didn’t know was that Lilly came back with a bag of powder that took her life that night.
“Acute overdose from fentanyl,” Puri read from her daughter’s death certificate weeks later. “We were told she died within minutes and wouldn’t have felt anything.”