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Date Posted: 11:29:06 09/29/01 Sat
Author: Shirleym
Subject: It's Good To Be Back :D

It's so good to come back to the board and see everyone again. Shirlhub and I are in the process of selling one home and buying another and it's been non-stop controlled chaos, ever since I left for L.A.

Welcome back Zzoo!!! :D

How wonderful to see the message from Peta... and Roy's incredible interview in Nuvo magazine... and the ph -ph-photoooooooohs! :P~~~~~~~~~``{{{THUD}}}

I came back from visiting my family around the 5th, and a few days later, my husband and I went house hunting closer to NYC.

That was on the 10th. We were going to look at a house, stay in NYC at our apartment that night, he'd do his work at the recording studio Tuesday, and Wednesday we'd come back.
The best laid plans...

The 10th was a warm day, but the heavy rain followed us all the way east on our drive. We got there late afternoon and looked at the house (Shirlhubs third time, my first) and my husband took a half hour video tape inside and out. It was so peaceful there... with just a little rumbling of thunder in the distance now and then and a few drops of rain here and there. The area is lush with big pine trees... and rocks... and a lake...
(sigh)

We got to our apartment in the city late, ate dinner and went straight to bed.

I don't go into the city much anymore. I liked it in the 70s and 80s, but lately I have a hard time with all the noise and crazyness, so I don't go unless I have a good reason for being there.

Tuesday morning I woke up around 8:00 and went to the living room to watch a little TV. I'm a channel surfer (unless it's LFN! LOL) so I flipped around for about 45 minutes, waking up and thinking about the things I could get done that day...
At about 8:45, I started hearing sirens. I could tell they were going downtown, but I didn't think anything of it because in New York City you ALWAYS hear sirens. "Damn!"... (I thought) "this is why I don't like coming to this city anymore. It's SO !@#$%^&* NOISY all the time..."

The sirens kept coming in waves... and then a little before 9:00, just as I was beginning to wonder how big that fire or accident could be, I flipped to a channel that had the WTC north tower burning - smoke billowing out.

"This doesn't look like 1993", I thought warily in my morning haze. I looked to the upper left corner of the screen...
It said "LIVE".
I leaned forward and looked out my window...
There it was.

When I heard an airplane had crashed into it, I assumed it was one of those tourist planes. The pilot must have had a heart attack, I thought. What a terrible shame.

I woke up Shirlhub and told him to take a look at the TV. Then I went into the kitchen to make us coffee and a couple of minutes later I heard a huge, far off {{{BOOM}}}
"Oh NOOOOOO!", I heard my husband say, and as I ran back into the living room and looked out the window again, I saw the huge fireball from the second crash. I was horrified. Oh no, it's spreading, I thought... Maybe the fuel from the first plane... This is just surreal. Those poor people.

As I ran back into the bedroom, my husband looked at me with eyes as big as saucers and said, "Was that another plane!!?? I thought I saw another plane out the window - a big one - hit the second tower."

I thought he must still be groggy. What did he mean, a second plane... "Get with it", I thought. This is NOT a time to be half dreaming. It's bad enough as it is.

Then the announcer on the TV said it WAS another plane - a big one, and that there must be some huge foul up with the east coast air traffic control system...

Uh uh~hhhhh, I thought. No..................... now I knew EXACTLY what this was...
and I was horrified... and I wondered what was going to happen next... and what those people in the buildings were doing... and if charges had been planted all over downtown Manhattan.

It was my first taste of war. War is big, overpowering, and terrifying. You feel like a bird trapped, not knowing which way to fly because any way could be the wrong way. I've been in some dangerous situations, but I always felt I had a fighting chance. I could use my wits, my agility, my will and my strength.
At this moment, we were all at the mercy of fate.

My husband and I watched the towers come down the same way we'd watched them go up years ago when we'd walk home after an all night recording session and see the early morning sun gleaming on them in the almost quiet New York streets...

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Now on our video tape is the beautiful peace of a lakeside home...
and then the burning towers...
A marker in time.
A piece of history.
I hope it wasn't for nothing.
I hope the world becomes a better place because of this. I hope that good will come from evil.


I'm so grateful to the cast of LFN for taking their characters seriously - as seriously as they could with some of the writing in the last couple of seasons. And especially to Roy Dupuis and Peta Wilson. They went for the "truth" in their characters and because of that, I can still watch the show and it doesn't seem trivial; even at a time like this...
ESPECIALLY at a time like this.


Here's to peace

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[> It's good to "see" you again. I've missed you. To peace, my friend. -- Zzoo, 11:50:54 09/29/01 Sat


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[> Thank you for sharing your first-hand account. None of us will ever be the same. -- PJ, 14:48:58 09/29/01 Sat


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[> Thank you Shirley, for sharing with us. What a horrifying experience that must have been .( Good to see your name here again ! ) -- mary(josephine670), 23:07:08 09/29/01 Sat


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[> Peace and Love...welcome back. -- willow, 23:45:28 09/29/01 Sat


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[> [> Has anyone heard from "Mary in Qatar"? I'm a little worried about her. -- Shirleym, 10:08:21 09/30/01 Sun


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[> ...and it's good to *have* you back. I heard that you were okay, Shirley, but never in my wildest dreams did I think that you actually saw the towers coming down. Wow. I have to say, that after living in N.Y.C. for many years, I was glad that I wasn't living there on that particular day. -- Susan W, 22:46:37 09/30/01 Sun


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[> Reading your account of the events gave me the shivers--I didn't know you were so close. Thank goodness you weren't injured. -- Gretchen, 12:53:44 10/01/01 Mon


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[> Re: It's Good To Be Back :D -- Pat G., 13:05:11 10/01/01 Mon

Glad to hear you and the Shirleyhub are fine...peace to you both.


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[> [> Hey Shirl...what lake are you talking about? I live on a lake in the burbs...could it be the same? Greenwood Lk? give me an email buzz and let me know, ok? -- Petra, 21:31:08 10/02/01 Tue


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