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I love listening to peoples stories about where they were and what they were doing on the morning of 9, 11, especially the stories from the ones who, through luck or fate, were allowed to live. For instance, theres this guy who had just returned the day before from his honeymoon. That night, on September 10, his new bride thought shed make him her special homemade burrito. The burrito was horrible, like eating tar stripped off the center line of the Major Deegan expressway. But love ignores all of that and what counts is the gesture, not the digestion. He told her how grateful he was and how much he loved her. And he asked for another. The next morning, September 11, 2001, hes on the subway from Brooklyn to his job on one of the top floors of the World Trade Center. The subway might have been heading to Manhattan, but the burrito was heading south, and I dont mean the Jersey shore. He starts to get sick, real sick, and decides to get off just one stop before the World Trade Center. He runs up the subway s
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