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Ten years ago this month, I was covering New York fashion week for The Toronto Star. On the morning of Sept. 11, I was in my hotel room, trying to send a batch of stories, and my laptop was not co-operating. Between calls to the newspaper’s IT department, my husband rang and told me to turn on the TV. Moments later, I watched the second plane fly into the World Trade Center.

It was the worst day of my life, as it was for so many others. And for years, I couldn’t think about what I’d witnessed: the ashes that fluttered down from the sky, the traumatized survivors at St. Vincent’s Hospital, the school bus full of children who had not been picked up at daycare.

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