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Monday, September 11, 2006 12:00 AM

Our family's recovery

When the grandmother the girls called "the human Barbie doll" died in the World Trade Center, they were buried in grief. But Brianna and Shannon, and their parents, Jay and Louise, refuse to let the past rule them.

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  • Monday, September 11, 2006 07:08 AM

    Did SR read the same article I did?

    Please cite the passages that substantiate the allegation that this family demands to be "worshipped". And do you honestly think that the Oklahoma City families aren't still experiencing these same kinds of problems?

    Maybe you should get back to us after you have suffered through that kind of trauma.

    I think that the only "wallowing" going on today is on the part of those people who have no personal connection to 9/11 re-living the events of that day via television or the internet.

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