Constance Labetti, accountant, Aon Corporation, South Tower, 99th floor: We got to the lobby and my coworker Jules and I had to rest for a moment because we were perspiring terribly. We had walked down 100 flights of steps. People were coming up to me, hugging me, and telling me, “Thank you, thank you,” and hugging me as they walked by me, and I said to Jules, “What? Why? What are they doing that for?” She said, “Connie, you don’t know what you were saying? You were saying, ‘We’re not going to die in this building. Just take it one step at a time.’ ” I was repeating what my father and my uncle
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