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The towers of the World Trade Center in New York City smolder before collapsing on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, after being hit by hijacked jetliners. (NEW YORK TIMES FILE PHOTO)

'Chance and a matter of hours'

On Sept. 11, 2001, I left Boston's Logan Airport on the 7:30 a.m. Delta shuttle to New York to attend a meeting a few blocks from the World Trade Center. The flight arrived at 8:35 a.m. and I took a bus to Grand Central.

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