Hindsight
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It is September 9, 2001. Taylor, a young graduate student falls from the sky. Ten years of one's life is a small price to pay to thwart the most devastating terrorist attack in American history.
Cathartic, painful, and oddly funny in places, I ripped my heart out in front of my computer on the ten year anniversary of 9/11. New York deserves better than what happened that day. But it takes more than the unimaginable to stop NYC.
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