On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:01:53 -0400, "Peter R."
wrote:

t seems that everyone I knew in upstate NY,
including myself, at the time was a mere one degree away (

I live in southern New Hampshire. Our veterinarian's husband was on
one of the AA planes from Boston to the WTC. A neighbor's daughter
lives in New York and had to walk all afternoon to get home (she
stepped into a shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers). And (known
only through the newspaper, to be sure) a gal in the neighboring town
weeks later had a letter returned to her: evidently it was aboard one
of the planes and became debris; the return address on the envelope
was legible, so some kindly New Yorker put it in a larger envelope and
mailed it back to her with a note hoping that she hadn't lost anyone
on the flight.

But then I'm only 60 miles from Logan airport, so I'm bound to know
people who travel through there.


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