It's curious that six years after, I've come to terms with many things... I think I've finally achieved closure. It came to some of us before today, it is still working through the fiber of many of us who will find it some time ahead from now.
I will always remember these buildings as part of the skyline that made me fall fiercely in love with a city.
Closure has nothing to do with forgetting and much to do with forgiving.
To the city: It's busy traffic and it's complicated life, and no fear.
To the Twins: May you stand tall, forever in dreamscapes.
To the dead: A place in our hearts and a moment of silence that depending in how close we were touched by this tragedy, could easily last a lifetime.
To the Troops: Love and the wish for a safe return.
To the Executioners of it all: Mercy, with an open heart.
"Some people fear complacency; others fear forgetting. Others have only limited space in memory, and the day is overwritten by the events that followed, by war and hurricane and every family's private trials. But the record can't be erased, any more than a year can have 364 days, and anything can bring it back full screen, like a glance at a skyline, a siren in the distance, a prayer that comes as reflex as you walk to work and remember the day they never came home"- Nancy Gibbs
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