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Payton Desbiens, 18, and her 16-year-old sister Madison are shell-shocked by the unexplained deaths of their mom on Aug. 21 and their dad last week.

Kerri Desbiens had been taking a nap on the couch in the family’s Jos. Janisse Avenue home when her husband Robert tried to wake her and realized she was dead. She was 39. Then on Oct. 7, the scenario was eerily similar when Madison went upstairs to check on her sleeping dad and discovered he wasn’t breathing. He was 41.

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“I don’t even know how to explain it, it’s hard,” Madison said of the sorrow and grief she and her sister are suffering.

Payton said the family of four “were always together, always,” and now the sisters are left struggling to cope and searching for answers.

After their dad’s death they moved in with their grandparents Rick and Deb Sanders, who are trying to restore some normalcy to their lives. But on Monday during Thanksgiving dinner, the sisters received a call from police who told them their rented townhouse had been broken into overnight. Everything of any value was gone.