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Epilogue:
September 11, 2002
Joanne's POV
It's been a year since two planes hit the World Trade Center and my life was changed in an instant. After that horrible day, our old mantra of "No Day but Today" had some new meaning. When we were young and still living in the East Village trying to survive, that phrase had to do with AIDS. Now it had to do with living each day to the fullest because we never knew if another terror attack was around the corner. Our little family had been reunited in a way this year. Mark and his family moved back to New York and happened to move into an apartment in our building. We were in for another surprise when Maureen ran into Benny in the laundry room of our building. It turned out that he and Alison were our neighbors as well. We have made amends with Benny since then and Alison turned out not be the spoiled rich girl that we had made her out to be so many years ago.
Today, we are all going back to the World Trade Center site or ground zero as they call it. We arrived there at eight in the morning to find places to stand for the memorial ceremony. Mark was filming a segment for the Today show about the one year anniversary so he was able to get us good spots for the ceremony.
The ceremony started at the exact time that the first plane hit with a moment of silence. I guess that Maureen saw my lip start to quiver because I felt her arm slip around my waist. After the moments of silence, they started reading off the names of the people who had died. Most of the names had been those of strangers but one was very familiar. William Jenkins. Bill, the other lawyer, the one who had convinced me to escape. I found Bill's wife and children afterwards and thanked them. I told his wife that he was a good person and about what he did that day. His wife seemed satisfied to know that her husband was a hero and even though it didn't stop the pain from the loss, it made her feel better. After she walked away, I felt all the emotions from last year start to come back and suddenly I was overcome with tears. Suddenly I felt someone tugging on my coat, it was Katie and she had a concerned look on her face. I picked her up and just cried into her coat. It must have been quite a sight, Joanne Jefferson, high powered attorney crying into the coat of a six year old. Maureen went over and took Katie out of my hands and put her arm around me and handed me a tissue.
"Let's go home baby" she whispered
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