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bb5c5f7 When she thought of New York City now, the place where she'd lived for most of her life, the only home she'd ever really known, she realized the city was like a person who now oftentimes struggled to stand proud because both its legs had collapsed in a sea of dust, fire and scattered office papers. september-11th-attacks twin-towers september-11th world-trade-center terrorism new-york-city new-york Rebecca McNutt
9af3712 Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America's flag exploded everywhere that day. september-11th-attacks twin-towers september-11th world-trade-center september-11-attacks manhattan patriotism new-york Rebecca McNutt
ead9b0f People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground. people twin-towers september-11th ground world-trade-center disaster gore september-11-attacks fall Rebecca McNutt
6d95d6b The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers were like the soul of lower Manhattan, alive in their own right. skyscraper empire-state-building icon landmark twin-towers brooklyn-bridge world-trade-center statue-of-liberty manhattan Rebecca McNutt
6f35fe4 "She fought the urge to scream, feeling desperately like she needed to run, that she needed to go as far away from Manhattan as possible and never even give it so much as a backwards glance, but she was frozen to the spot like a wind-up toy that had finally given out. "This city is falling apart!" she shouted in cheerful trauma, her voice shaky and muddled by anxious, messy laughter as it resounded in her head. In a coping sort of euphoria she skipped lithely through the dust and debris as though it were falling snow on a winter day." nervous-breakdown twin-towers posttraumatic-stress-disorder world-trade-center september-11-attacks new-york-city trauma new-york Rebecca McNutt