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Originally posted by Peaches@Dec 3 2003, 04:47 PM
The one thing we kept putting off was going to the Twin Towers. I SO wish I'd gone there. 
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I remember as a kid driving by the WTC and seeing them finish up the very top of the buildings. Two of my best friends were very lucky to get out of there alive on 9-11, and two guys I knew from high school didn't make it out.
One thing I'll never forget was my aunt who was visiting from California. She was 86 at the time, and my friend and I (we were 21 or 22) took her for a drink one evening at Windows on the World. We just sat there talking at a nice table overlooking the Statue of Liberty. She told us all these stories about how she came to America when she was a little girl, how she met her husband, etc... To me and my friend it was simply something to do with my visiting aunt, but to her apparently it was much more... Some years later I went to visit her, and everyone I met said "oh, you're the one who took her up to Windows on the World?" And until she died she always asked me how my friend Paolo was doing. "Such a nice boy..."
I haven't had the heart to go back to New York since...