Lucille T. King - Ridgewood, Queens
Photo Credit: Voices Center for Resilience
Lucille T. King of Ridgewood, Queens was - depending on who you asked - either a creature of habit the likes of which one does not normally encounter or the possessor of a stubborn streak more normally associated with an inanimate object or a mule. Her take? She knew what she liked and stuck with it. She and her husband, Richard, lived in the same apartment in Ridgewood, Queens, for the entirety of their thirty-one year marriage. Every Sunday morning at 8 am she drove down to Lower Manhattan to visit with - and spend the day cooking with - her parents. Every year she and Richard took their vacation in the Catskills at Wolff's Maple Breeze Resort.
She worked at Aon Corporation in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Ms. King, 59 years old, was at her office when the murderous cowards who had hijacked American Airlines Flight 175 out of Logan Airport flew it into the South Tower at 9:03 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
The "thing she liked and stuck with it" of hers that I found particularly compelling was her season-long wager with Richard on the outcome of Yankees games. She loved her Bronx Bombers. So much so that she bet on them to win every game. Richard? He bet on whomever the Yankees were playing. The stakes? Twenty-five cents a game. I smile just thinking about it. Hell, I am smiling as I am typing these words right now.
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