“I don’t remember her—she died when I was a baby. But Gramps told me he wanted her to see the towers while they were still building them. He was like that, kind of impulsive and brave and romantic. He bribed a security guard to let them in and they took a construction elevator up and walked around. He said it was like standing in a giant Tinkertoy, because all you could see was the steel skeleton. He told my grandmother, ‘These are the bare bones of one of the greatest buildings in the world. It’s just being born, but it’ll be here a thousand years, I bet.’ He loved talking about the towers.
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