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Sep 2024
50m 34s

What if you were on the 68th floor? [Reb...

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A Port Authority employee narrowly escapes from the 68th floor after a plane hits the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, but the most devastating impact comes from the psychological wounds that haunt her life for decades after. 
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