On her bed she laid out the black gown and diamond necklace she wanted to wear.
But as her hand touched the doorknob she stopped herself and sat back down on her bed.
When I walked into her room a half-hour later, she was sitting on her bed flipping through a picture book.
Her eyes are closed, she is afraid to look, she is afraid to see who is sitting on her bed.
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She has trouble walking and spends most of her day on her bed, talking to friends and relatives on the phone.
Newsbeat went to meet 13-year-old Georgia Woods who, with her mobile phone, laptop and the cuddly toys on her bed is like most other girls her age.
Her clothes were neatly laid out on her bed, her family says, suggesting she may have tried on a few outfits before deciding what to wear to the office.
"When I started to work with the Americans, it was a very wonderful job, " she says, sitting on her bed with her long, dark hair in a simple braid.
Yates had a history of postpartum psychosis, major depression and two suicide attempts before she drowned her children and laid their bodies on her bed, covering them with a sheet.
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In the tiny bedroom they share in a ground floor flat, 13-year-old Lauren Fick is trying to finish her homework on her bed, as her two older brothers rub shoulders at the computer.
She laid all except Noah on her bed.
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He talked about how his mother had scrapped with insurance companies on her death bed, how the family had been on food stamps, and how his grandmother scrimped so that the family could afford to give him a first-class education.
Several photographers and cameramen were allowed to take pictures of Begum on Saturday afternoon as she lay on her hospital bed.
Constance unpacked her clothing that first night in her strange chilly room, brushed her teeth, plumped the pillows on her new bed, set the alarm.
"Don't burn yourself, " she said, lying on her hospital bed.
At the top of the stairs she walked sternly and without a glance past the oval mirror and into the bedroom, where I watched her bright reflection lie down on the bed and close her eyes.
There was Hadas, dead on her parents' bed, next to her dead father Udi.
Three days after her operation, she was getting in and out of bed on her own.
The scene in Gertrude's bedroom when he challenges her on her "incestuous" bed is menacingly powerful.
That night, as she lay in bed on her rock-hard mattress, Luda continued to think about Milena.
She lay down on the bed, her feelings concentrated at the forefront of her mind like an immensely weighted black point, incomprehensible.
"Others were not so lucky and slept in their cars, " she said, sitting on a bed with her eight- and 10-year-old granddaughters by her side.
The jury was previously shown an image of a child, alleged to be Tia although the girl's face cannot be seen, on a bed at her grandmother's house.
Huddled on the bed with her two older siblings and her little cousin, Ahad says the war has created a layer of nightmares, each different from the next.
He told the court he accepted he told police that days before his wife went missing, he had found her sitting on her side of the bed, with a "horrendous" nosebleed.
Reaching the annex, Husna sat on the bed and buried her face in her hands.
Stephen Streener, 49, from Choppington, Northumberland, strangled Jacqueline Grant, 48, last November, then left her body on their burning bed.
She said Winehouse "voluntarily consumed alcohol" and added "two empty vodka bottles were on the floor" beside her bed when her body was discovered.
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