10 September, 2019

9/11 happened to real people going about their normal day


For weeks and months after there were the tiny reminders in the missed appointments: the people who didn’t come for their scheduled dentist appointments or hairdresser visits, the people who never picked up their dry cleaning, the pharmacy prescriptions that were never picked up. The cars left behind in the parking lots of the commuter rail stations belonging to the people who never came home at the end of the day to pick them up.