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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.
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new-york
new-york-city
september-11th
september-11th-attacks
terrorism
twin-towers
world-trade-center
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Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America's flag exploded everywhere that day.
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manhattan
new-york
patriotism
september-11-attacks
september-11th
september-11th-attacks
twin-towers
world-trade-center
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Rebecca McNutt |
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People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.
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disaster
fall
gore
ground
people
september-11-attacks
september-11th
twin-towers
world-trade-center
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Rebecca McNutt |
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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.
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empire-state-building
icon
landmark
manhattan
skyscraper
statue-of-liberty
twin-towers
world-trade-center
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Rebecca McNutt |
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"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."
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nervous-breakdown
new-york
new-york-city
posttraumatic-stress-disorder
september-11-attacks
trauma
twin-towers
world-trade-center
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