Word: disbelief
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...worker cried a little and shook her head in stunned disbelief. I lowered my head, turned north and continued walking. I cannot remember ever feeling so small...
...limbo. I can’t drop myself in further for fear of drowning, and I certainly can’t pull myself out, for fear of losing my humanity. Surrounded by repeated images, discussions, accusations, threats, curses, and the whizzing of fighter jets overhead, I fluctuate between solitary disbelief and solitary horror. For although I have never felt more communally connected to my fellow New Yorkers, I have also never felt quite so stranded, helpless, alone. All I can think to care about at this precise moment, all I can think to listen for over the drone...
...event, is that even now that waiting feeling remains. Even after the personal reassurance has set in, even after the e-mails, the phone calls, the confirmation that my family is safe, even now I’m stuck on the edge of my seat balanced between fear and disbelief...
...move left many passengers in disbelief...
...utter disbelief, I could see smoke and flames devouring the top third of the north tower. The bitter smell of smoke burned in my nose...