Stories tagged with "diary pages"
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9-11-07: Aftermath of 9/11/01
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
I was numbed out enough from my emotional shock to write something about 9/11, but I was never able to truly deal with the is…
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9-11-01: Evening in Leominster, MA, part 1
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
I called my own mother around dinnertime. She’d been working at Logan International Airport for a few years. Months before, h…
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9-11-01: Aftermath
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
People proclaimed the office workers, pedestrians, and Emergency Responders as martyrs. _They were people who showed up to wo…
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9-11-01: Afternoon in Leominster, MA part 4
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
Mel said after word of the attacks got out, a friend called and said, “Now aren’t you glad we have a Republican in office?”
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9-11-01: Afternoon in Leominster, MA part 3
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
Hunter’s older half-sisters (4 and 6 years old) were in school. Mel said the schools had let parents know they were strictly …
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9-11-01: Afternoon in Leominster, MA part 2
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
Taking a break some time in the afternoon, I went next door to Mel and JR’s apartment. It being mid-day, they had not begun t…
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9-11-01: Morning in Fitchburg, MA, part 1
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
At the Fitchburg Train Station, I had the option of waiting twenty minutes for a bus to take me to the college, or walking fo…
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9-11-01: Morning in Fitchburg, MA, part 2
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
Still listening to the Walkman, I entered Miller Hall. Once a dormitory for the school’s first female class, it was now overc…
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9-11-01: Morning in Leominster, MA, part 2
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
I started to steel myself for a tragedy.
They talked of “all those people” and the buildings. I didn’t know where or how man…
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9-11-01: Morning in Leominster, MA
by Alexa ♥ about 1 year ago
On 9/11, I was living in Leominster, in the north-central part of Massachusetts, far closer to the New Hampshire border than …