In 1999, Brian Wilkes moved from New Jersey to North Carolina. At his going-away party, he met Lorraine Antigua. He moved to North Carolina as planned but did so while maintaining a long-distance relationship with the woman who had won his heart and whose heart he had won. His status as a North Carolinian proved short-lived. He moved back to New Jersey so he and Lorraine could get married.
The couple lived together, with Lorraine's two children Aaron and Caitlin, in a home that Lorraine bought in Middletown Township, New Jersey. At age 32, Lorraine Antigua loved her job at Cantor Fitzgerald. So much so that she had turned down job offers so she could stay at Cantor, doing something she loved.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Lorraine was already at work when the murderous cowards who had hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 flew it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, impacting the building several floors below those Cantor Fitzgerald occupied. Lorraine called Brian's cell phone and left him a message on its voice mail. She told him that a plane had hit the building but that she was fine.
Sadly, she was not.
-AK
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