email444.xml

email444.xml

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2002-08-19

Tara,

Thank you for your concern. Joe and I are both well. Joe's sister and her
girlfriend are also safe. In fact we have been very fortunate in that all
our friends are safe and accounted for.

When this all happened, I was at LaGuardia airport waiting to get on a plane
to go to Georgia on business. I was with another girl I work with. Her Mom
called her on her cell at 9:00 to make sure she was okay. She didn't have
much info other than a plane had crashed into the WTC. She didn't knowhow
big the plane was or if it was a commercial flight. I called Joe on my cell
and asked him to turn on the news and tell us what was happening. Joe told
me what was being said on the news and I related it to the other people at
the airport. When he mentioned that they were talking about terrorists,
Tiffany and I decided to leave the airport. That was about 9:15-9:20. We
were probably some of the first people to leave the airport. We jumped in a
cab and asked them to take us to the city. We could see the towers burning
from the freeway. After about 20 mins. in the cab listening to the radio, we
realized we weren't going to be able to get into the city. Tiffany's family
lives in Westchester, NY, so we decided to turn the cab around and head up
there. We were watching the towers, and exiting one freeway and getting onto
another, when we went behind some trees, and looked back at the WTC and saw
that one of the buildings was missing. I spent the night at Tiffany's
parent's house. I was able to get back home this afternoon. We live 12th St.
No traffic is allowed below 14th St, so things are really quiet here. You
can smell the fires from here, and we are 3 miles away. I was up at my
frineds house on 72nd this evening, and you could start to smell the fires
up there as well.

On a happier note, Joe and I are going to have a baby. I am 3 1/2 months
pregnant, due on March 2nd.

We hope all is well with you and Scott.

Love,

Monica and Joe


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tara Hempstead" <t.hempstead@gte.net>
To: "Monica Sexton" <mojosexton@nyc.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: How are you?


> Hi Monica and Joe,
>
> It takes a disaster for me to write, eh. Anyhow, Scott and I are
wondering
> if you are well. I'm sure you two are being bombarded by email, so I'll
> keep it short. Let us know how you're doing and TAKE CARE!
>
> -tara
>

Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:55 PM

How are you?