Rezo

rezo
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Eileen: I was walking to work.
Robert: I had taken the subway like always.
Brian: My brother and I were fighting.
Rich: I was standing right there.
Casey: We were asleep; we had just made love and dozed off together.
Joshua: I had a speech that day, no one told me; I was miles away.
Robert: The subway stopped and blinked for several minutes, typical.
Eileen: There was a plane, flying, so beautifully, in an amazing path above me.
Rich: I waslked away and didn't even look at it, or see the plane.
Joshua: I had never seen it and never will.
Casey: We had slept in that day because we didn't have class until one.
Eileen: This plane flew with purpose. I knew something was very wrong.
Joshua: I was nervous for my speech so I didn't notice the world around me.
Robert: All of us sitting there waiting, it's funny I remember thinking about Godot.
Eileen: I saw it crash into...(long pause)...I turned around and went home, I didn't care about work and I figured they wouldn't mind if I called in sick.
Rich: I heard it. I fell. And finally started to run.
Joshua: Couldn't hear it, too far away. But later the busy signal was the only sound I could hear.
Casey: I woke up and saw the cloud from our window.
Brian: My brother got a call. I watched him put on his fireman's uniform and he had to go.
Robert: When I finally climbed the stairs I felt I had come out to this ghost town, where...the Ghosts were walking around.
Casey: We made love the rest of the day. We needed to feel, not alone.
Rich: If I had stayed there ten more minutes.
Brian: That minute we stopped fighting.
Joshua: My minutes on stage gave me an A in class, but all I wanted was to

All: Cry
~From Talking with Michelangelo. by Lestat Oberon


It doesn't seem that long to me, but I have relized it was 4 years ago. Wow, four years...and I still can hear the busy signal. I still remember how the day went. Everything as clearly as I lived it. Okay, so a little hazey here and there. I remember hearing from Casey, and days later him talking about the vigil being held in New York.

Casey: "You of all people should be here. This is what you are all about. We are all coming together, singing and holding on to one another. We are no longer alone."

I was lucky not to know anyone in the towers that was hurt. I new one that was in one of the towers, but got out, only to see her husband rush in to save a few more people. New York you are strong and my thoughts are with you. New Orleans I know you will be too. This is not the end, only a new beginning.