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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
One man, an investment banker from Cantor Fitzgerald, took her to see the viewing deck like a good Samaritan since he felt sorry for her, and… and it was like flying, she could see the entire city, she could see the top of the clouds and the ocean, the pink and purple of the late sunset, and he told her, "it's the closest we can ever get to heaven! These buildings connect everyone together like a big community!" "If this is the closest place to heaven, are you an angel investor?" she'd asked curiously.
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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
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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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes."
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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
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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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.
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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America's flag exploded everywhere that day.
book-quote patriotism manhattan september-11-attacks
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
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.
book-quote new-york-city terrorism september-11th
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes.
book-quote sad new-york-city september-11-attacks
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
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."
book-quote new-york-city terrorism september-11th