{"id":4668,"date":"2011-09-10T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T22:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2011-09-10T17:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T22:56:16","slug":"10-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/10-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years on…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn’t think it was going to hit me the way it did today. And today isn’t even the day. Tomorrow is the day. But this morning, I woke up and NPR was playing a variety of follow-ups and StoryCorps pieces from relatives and survivors, and I just completely broke down, by myself in my apartment, in wracking sobs. <\/p>\n

But that was early in the morning. I pulled myself together for my day of running errands downtown, from getting my hair cut to buying shoes and doing all sorts of things that I end up doing when I have any reason to go visit my old neighborhood between Union Square and the Flatiron\u2026<\/p>\n

And as I was walking through the greenmarket, making my way up towards that same Flatiron building, I looked up and saw a giant billow of smoke going up to the sky. Only a few people seemed to notice it, but the screaming fire engines and cop cars and\u2026smell\u2026of burning air just about caused me to lose it again. Particularly when I realized that I was standing almost exactly in the same spot\u2026on 20th and Broadway, that I was standing when the first plane hit the first tower 10 years ago tomorrow (back then I was walking down 20th from Broadway to Fifth, and saw the first tower on fire, not on TV but with my own naked eyes when I reached Fifth Avenue). I had such a sense of deja vu, and I realized almost an hour later, even though I had managed to get on with my day, that I was still visibly shaking. <\/p>\n

And I say this as a person who, on that day, was safely several miles uptown from ground zero and didn’t lose a single person that I knew. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow is going to be rough for a lot of people in this city, and I just hope that everyone gives people the space they need to get through the day.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen a lot of people doing “where were you” pieces, but I wrote mine 5 years ago. I can’t say it better now than I did back then, so I’ll just link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(oh, and the fire today? apparently just a transformer on the roof of a building<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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