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"I love London and I want to stay here for months," read the upsetting final text of 64-year-old Darlene Horton, who was the devastating victim of a lone-wolf terror attack in London's Russel Square earlier this week.
Horton sent the text to her Florida friend Liz Jordan on Wednesday before she was murdered. That night, during the last night of her two-month visit, the tourist from Tallahassee was walking with her husband before allegedly being stabbed by 19-year-old Zakaria Bulhan.
Earlier that morning she messaged her friend Liz to say she was looking forward to a tennis match when she returned home, reports The Sun.
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She wrote: "Yes! I am looking forward to that, at least. But I do LOVE London and could stay until November easily.
"Rick and I took our tennis racquets this year and found some courts within walking distance from our flat so I'm hoping I won't be as rusty as I usually am when I come back."
Her friend, who works as a nurse in Florida, told The Sun: "One minute we were arranging to play tennis, the next my best friend is dead. We have always texted a lot, we would have joke message exchanges. She always put a smile on my face.
"She loved life but said she'd die young because her mother died young. It's unfortunate she was in that part of London at that very moment in time. Perhaps her premonitions were true."
During the attack, five other people where injured.
Bulhan, a Norwegian national of Somali origin, appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of the crime.
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He was ordered to reappear at the Old Bailey on August 9 when his trial will commence.
Words: Hamish Kilburn
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