User blog comment:Magic26/september eleventh/@comment-1341721-20110912052742

I was 3.

My mom had actually just finished dropping me off at pre-school (I live in NYC, by the way) and suddenly she pulls me by the arm, gets my sister from her 5th grade class, and just takes us out of the school. I ask her why, and she just hails a taxi and drives us home. Once we got home, I saw live footage of the second tower crashing.

Luckily, I don't personally know anyone who died in the accident (not that it was really an "accident"). I'll stop now since I never think straight at night, but I wish the best of luck to anyone who lost a close friend or relative in the attack.