Emily in the Elevator: A 9/11 World Trade Center Love Story

It begins like any other Tuesday morning in New York City.

Emily Lombardo, a sharp-witted, coffee-dependent twenty-eight-year-old from Queens, steps into an elevator at the World Trade Center’s North Tower. She’s running on too little sleep and too much of a stranger’s painful story rattling around in her head. She isn’t looking for anything, certainly not love. And then the doors close.

Christopher Anderson, Jr., handsome, well-dressed, smelling faintly of citrus and sea air, smiles at her with perfect white teeth and asks what floor she’s going to.

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