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by: Leigh

I remember my friend M, a New Jerseyite, saying that when she visited soon after, it didn't bother her that these buildings were missing from the skyline. She had taken the kids to the top of the Empire State Building, and I asked how it was, was it sad to look south? She tends to take these stoic positions, which sometimes I don't quite believe, or seem hollow at the core, or never ring quite true to me. But I remember feeling so bereft when she said it, because even today, five years on, I feel such sorrow and loss when I look downtown, something I and everyone else used to do, habitually, to orient ourselves, part of the landscape at every time of the day, the light, the beautiful Manhattan light, bouncing off of or between these behemoths, unavoidable, always in flux. Now, as the firefighter in the documentary said, they aren't there, they are just not there, impossible.

I found Molly, the terrier mix who was my spiritual companion for my twenties and into my thirties, through the birth of A, put down a few months before C's arrival, at the foot of the towers, one sunday morning in the early 1980s. Andrew (the brit) and I were walking on the old elevated west side highway. I walked up the steps to the plaza, and there was the little starving puppy, a Yoda- look alike, asleep. She looked up and kissed me, then followed us home to Tenth st., nibbling at the heels of joggers and sunday strollers. A soul dog if there ever was one.
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#1  14 September 2006 - 12:38

 

Well, at some point we must all except that reality changes and remolds our futures on a daily basis. For some people it is easier to accept, and for others, they live in the past as it it were their present...

psmartin

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