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Posted By: leon

It's amazing how some other things can happen and be overshadowed by that day. I was 40 on Sept 5th, 2001.....which would have seemed ok, since 9/11 was a few days away. However, my mother in law passed away on August 23, leaving my wife an orphan with her only sibling passing away many years ago. They were extremely close. She/we were so devastated by that loss that 9/11 just added to the shock we were already in....somehow, I think that will be one of my worst birthdays ever..(*of course there was no celebrating). Yesterday I saw a car that said 40 B'day on the windows....and I was sad all over again....such is life. As Burdick said, to paraphrase, "Our cards can take us to places, away from ordinary life, and give solitude, not normally found".....which, many times, is good.....Never forget 9/11.....