- Wednesday, September 12, 2001
1:31 PM
- oh, god. my husband came home at 10:30 yesterday morning to tell me that the twin towers were destroyed. by the time i woke up this morning i was trying to tell myself not that many people will have died, it won't change history, we won't be at war. (i was actually trying to get back to sleep with such semi-soothing thoughts, but that didn't work.) ok, so it's "good news" that maybe less than twenty thousand people were in the buildings.
my cousin owned a company in one of the towers. he is one of the lucky people who decided to go in a little later than usual, so he turned around and went back home when he heard the news. he's 39 years old with a wife and four small children. thank god.
i'm from brooklyn and live in northern virginia now, so these attacks have hit literally close to home for me.
i told my husband i loved him for the first time in over a month yesterday. we have a lot of problems and some of them are his fault. but it was impossible not to be grateful for what i have and what we have. i only hope our baby isn't born into a nation still at war six months from now.
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