When the Flames Go Up
When the Flames Go Up
Monday Check-In: "Two dollars' worth of old-timey medicine."
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Monday Check-In: "Two dollars' worth of old-timey medicine."

A lot of our friends should have been in the Trade Center on 9/11 but weren't.
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For once, Magda has a reason to be thankful for overcast humidity, in contrast to the all-too-perfect autumn weather that many New Yorkers associate with 9/11. We talk about the vexing disillusion of those months after the towers fell, and how a doctor Magda knew felt the same way as a teenager after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

We also remember the strangely large number of people we know who had reason to be in or near the World Trade Center on 9/11 but, for one flukey reason or another, were not.

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Tune in for recommendations for some cathartic trauma memoirs, a salute to the rotating cube as an architectural device, Doug’s spot-on impersonation of his voice filtered through shitty wi-fi, and how to feel when a doctor tells you, “Man, that’s a lot of pus!”

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