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"Aerrion was a Barbie," Burnett's friend Korea Kelly told CBS stationat the vigil on Sunday."She was a goddess. Can you hear me? Fun! When I say goddess, she was everything.
If you wanted to have a good day, you need to smile, Aerrion was the person you wanted by your side."."As a friend, and both of those are my friends who both got killed the same way, and being a black trans woman myself, that hurts like hell," she said."It's a pain that I can't fathom. It's a pain that I don't know how to fathom or to tell anyone how I'm feeling.
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