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2002-09-16

the night before my husband and I had an argument. Usually when we argue we don't talk or show emotion next day. But on that morning as he dropped me off we both kissed each other goodbye. I'm glad he did.

I rode the A train to work. When I got off of Broadway Nassua station (about 8:50 am) I saw a lot of paper flying like when there's a parade and I thought how weird, i didn't know there was a parade. and as i looked down Nassau, in the Wall street direction I could see all this paper flying. As I started to walk to work I distinctly remember this one lady that was well dressed cluthting on to her purse, looking up at the sky, with the most terrifying look in her eyes. And I remember thinking I wonder if she's ok, should I ask her. I felt compelled to ask her are you ok, but I didn't. Her her was a mess, her face was a bit dirty. But unfortunately my nature isn't like that so i proceeded to go to work. and then i saw another person, a man who seemed a bit out of breath, again his face was dirty and he also looked a bit scared. As I came to the corner of John street I saw a crowd had gathered and looked up in the WTC location. And there I saw this huge hole with black smoke coming out. Oh my God, I thought what the heck happened. I thought it was an explosion. I asked someone what happened and they said they think it was a jet plane.

Somewhat scared I proceeded to walk to work, not knowing if i should or shouldn't. The entire time I kept thinking the same thing. I decided to go to work. When I arrived on 28th floor, the reception people looked at me a bit scared and asked me what happened. I had no idea that the impact had been so loud and that it was felt in our building. Since they didn't have a view of the wtc, they didn't know. So i told them what I was told. I went to my desk which had a view of the other tower. And two coworkers and I went into one of the offices to see from the window if we could see the one that got hit. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere you hear this like roaring sound and this huge blue plane and we screamed oh my God and we saw it hit the second tower right before my eyes. I started crying and all i knew is this was no accident and that we were being attacked. All i knew is I had to get home to my two babies at home. everyone proceeded to evacuate and somehow someway as I was crying i proceeded to cross the brooklyn bridge. Crying and scared I also started looking up at the sky fearing the worst. I walked as fast as I could and God blessed me cause i found my cousin and his girlfriend on the bridge. that familiar voice was a godsend. Amist so many people who would have guessed I would find my cousin in all the chaos. As we walked with the crowd we heard planes, we didn't know it was the military securing our skies. then we heard this thunderous roar. We began to run not looking back. We didn't know it was the tower coming down.

I do remember one thing. When we got to brooklyn we found these 2 ladies that had escaped just in time, they came down from the 89th floor of the second tower that was hit. And i remember i said god bless you.

And the streets were turning white in brooklyn.