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2003-08-25

This story is about my sister-in-law Liz and my niece Ashleigh. For Ashleigh's 16th birthday she wanted to go to New York and see Michael Jackson in concert. They came to the city a couple of days before the concert to do some sightseeing. They were able to see just about everything they wanted to in New York except for the WTC. Their flight was to leave in the morning on September 11th. On the way to the airport they decided to take a later flight out of New York and spend the day at the WTC, starting with breakfast at the Top of the World restaurant. When they got to the airport the lady at the ticket desk told them that a flight was leaving in about 15 minutes, and did they want to leave on that flight? Liz says that she didn't know what prompted her, but she said, "sure." Thank goodness for that! They would have been in the restaurant when the plane hit!