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2002-08-19

As I was sitting at work, people were going around saying first the planes hit the Twin Towers then the Pentagon. Soon after, my boss called us into his office to say that there wasn't any way to get confirmation from Washington , and if we wanted to leave work, we could and we would deal with leave slips the next day (it was 10:10 AM). After I left his office and went back to my desk, I was calm (why I don't know since Oklahoma really tore me up and changed me forever especially since I work in a Federal Government building), then thought, I'd better get out of there. The parking lot will be a bear to get off of. Sure enough, there was a line to get out, but miraculously people were starting to show acts of kindness and letting cars get into line. I drove home with the radio on and really got scared when I heard another plane crashed, this time in Pennsylvania (my boyfriend lives in PA, and they weren't saying what city). By the time I got home and flipped on the tv just on the oft chance my soap may be coming on, I stared at the screen and shut it off. I was like a James Bond movie then, shaken, but not stirred. I've since seen the specials on what happened that day (finally seeing the planes hit the buildings), but still have not seen the images of people jumping. I have to be the only one who couldn't watch it the day it happened.