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September 11th, 2001
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"don't wake me up if it's not important"
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Posted by: Megan from Burlington, NC
Sunday September 07, 2003 @ 06:57 PDT
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the phone rang somewhere around nine in the morning, i'm not sure the exact time, because my clock's always either fast or slow. it was my friend mike, as usual, calling too early in the morning. i write for a living, and he knows that i stay up until four, trying to get another chapter out on whatever i'm working on. "meg, they just bombed the trade center and the pentagon!" he yelled, and i yawned. "mike, i got five hours of sleep, and it's too damn early for prank calls." i slammed down the receiver and dropped right back off, exhausted. the phone rang again, but this time my grandmother brought it in. she was crying. right then and there, i knew something was wrong, so i grabbed the phone and started talking seriously with mike, running downstairs to turn on cnn. i watched tv for about a minute or so, gawking at the screen, while mike and i bantered back and forth, trying to figure out exactly what happened. then the next plane hit, and i lost it, remembering the discussion at dinner the night before. "mama!!" i yelled to my grandma upstairs. "wasn't uncle johnny supposed to be up there today!?" mama came downstairs, still crying. "yes, sweetie, but i'm sure he got out by now. i called your aunt theresa, but there was no answer." well, thank god for the family phone connection. my aunts are all notorious for calling everyone all the time, and word got to us that my uncle had flown home to la the day before at about 7 or 8 in the morning. we were a bit freaked though, because if he had flown home on the eleventh, he would have been in one of those planes that got flown into the towers. and if he had stayed for the conference, then he would have died. the conference was on one of the upper floors, somewhere in the eighties or nineties. and as mike said before we hung up somewhere around ten, "you know me better than that, meg. i wouldn't wake you up if it wasn't important."
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