Ayano Tokumasu

Taking your own life is a dramatic and final deed, and maybe it was the raw power of Niagara Falls that drew Japanese student Ayano Tokumasu to end hers there. She's not alone: an estimated 20-40 people end their lives there every year, and over 5,000 people - though not all of them suicides - in total have perished at the hands of those mighty waters.

Whatever the troubles that Ayano Tokumasu was facing at the time, her short and unhappy life wasn't the only one that was affected that day. Without realizing it, her desperate act would also haunt the frame of this otherwise happy couple, who also didn't notice what was going on in the background. It's probably a holiday they'd now rather forget.

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