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That day was terrible for me, as I have family friends in Jersey/NY, I myself am from upstate NY (it's still home to me even though I now live in Indiana), and my best friend lives a little bit outside of DC. I was sleeping my loft when my phone rang.. Of course I didn't get down to answer it..But then whoever it was kept hanging up and calling back, so I tumbled out of bed and picked up the phone by saying "I don't know who this is, but this BETTER be good". I knew it was an on campus call so I wasn't worried about being rude because I had been woken up.. But anyhow, it was one of my best friends and all he said was "Turn on the TV".. And I was like "DUDE, I'm SO sleeping, call me back later".. And he was like "NO, AMY, turn on the tv!! Something is going on in New York!!!" ... That, of course, immediately sparked my attention, so I turned it on. I had turned it on right after the very first plane hit, so I saw it alllll go down.. I was going up and down the halls of my dorm telling people to turn on their tv's (I think I was the first one on my floor to find out)...
Well in my flurry of telling everyone to turn on the tv, I hadn't heard anything about DC...When I finally get back to my room and had talked to my parents, I hear about the pentagon... I absolutely flipped out and destroyed my room looking for my best friend's home number.. I called there and it was a madhouse (her dad and uncle were both stuck downtown in DC cuz it was gridlocked in a big way).. So I call Jeanine (my best friend) at school and she's absolutely bawling.. She's telling me "Come get me Amy, I'm so scared....Please...I can't die.. I can't leave my room, we have a lock down beacuse all of campus has a bombthreat...Come get me out of here...I can't die without seeing you again, you're my sister!!".. And so on and so forth... So as you can imagine, I TOTALLY lose it at this point.. All day, I was walking around in a daze, mostly locked in my room.. Crying... Worrying...Talking on the phone...Glued to the TV.. It was terrible...
Thats my story anyhow...
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