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Here, I will recount my 9/11 story, as written shortly after the attacks. However, before beginning, it must be understood that I had gotten into a car accident a few months before at a notorious intersection called the Somerville Circle, near Somerville, NJ. (The heavy traffic and the bad traffic-circle design contributed to car wrecks.) Because of that accident, I was in court on September 10, 2001. I had somehow escaped penalty for this incident, because it was perhaps my first car accident, and this showed up the next morning upon waking up.

"On the Eleventh of September,
I had been in bed laughing in the AM,
for I was in such a good mood.
Then I turned the computer on in
the dorm (Hardenbergh, fifth floor, at Rutgers University), and (of
course) the AOL instant messenger
ticker came on... and the first
headline was something like,
"World Trade Center towers under
attack" - so I promptly turned
on my brand-new TV. On it,
a fearsome scene of a World
Trade Center tower with a
big fearsome hole in it. I then
saw that tower go down - and,
of course I was angry. I
was also afraid - because
they had shut Manhattan down
and made my uncle & others
a bunch of sitting ducks, and
also because I was worried
that biological agents might've
been aboard the wrecked planes.
I later realized that the
planes' fires would've burned
away any such agents, but
I was still rather jumpy
for the next few days - mostly
[waiting] for the sound of a wailing
siren, carrying some of the wounded
to New Brunswick... ouch."

"Of course, if I had known that NYC
would be foolhardy enough to build
a self-destructing emergency center
next to the WTC, I'd have realized
that Giuliani and Co. really were idiots...
sorta... when it comes to disaster."