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My grandparents lived in Brooklyn, and when I was pretty young, they took me to the roof of one of the Twin Towers, the Empire State Building, and across the ferry and up the Statue of Liberty, probably in 1975/6. I still remember bits of that visit, that it was an overcast day and very dark, and from the roofs, I couldn't really see anything because I was probably still under 4' tall.
In 2001, I was working at a startup in Austin. I saw the second impact on television, and the rest of it. I followed my boss home, and in his mail that day (had arrived the day before) was a piece of tourism marketing from New York. It was a postcard with an image of the Twin Towers from an angle above, and written across the image was the enticement, "Get up! Get out! Get away!" Surreal.
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