After The Trauma
Newsweek, October, 2001 by Geoffrey Cowley (With Anne Underwood, Erika Check and Julie Scelfo in New York and bureau reports)
Francesco Fiorello was nowhere near the Twin Towers on the morning of Sept. 11. The 30-year-old high-school teacher was 40 miles away in Ossining, N.Y., talking to his wife, Rose, also 30, on her cell phone. Rose had just come out of the subway at Dey Street, in front of the World Trade Center, when United Flight 175 slammed into Tower 2. As Rose described what she was seeing--smoke pouring from both buildings, people plunging 100 stories to the sidewalk--Francesco begged her to run for her life. "I thought I was going to lose my wife," he recalls. "She was crying and telling me there was a fire and people were dying." Rose managed to escape before the buildings collapsed. She returned to work last week, shaken but physically uninjured. Francesco still feels as scared as he did...
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