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This photo represents the myriad of deep emotions I have been feeling
since the moment I saw the smokey towers while en route to Manhattan
on 9/11. As a Child Life fellow at Saint Vincent's
Hospital-Manhattan, I spent the following three days/nights in the
hospital, answering phone lines for the victims' families looking for
their loved ones. During many emotional breaks from this task, I
counseled firefighters and other rescue workers who had just returned
to the hospital from the disaster area to calm down. These were the
most difficult and heartwrenching days of my life, and I often lapse
back to them in my mind. Life does go on, thank G-d, but I still cry
easily and often, remembering the pain behind all the voices of these
desperate distraught, and broken individuals. |
