Word: naoemi
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Naoemi Gullickson was late getting home last Thursday, and her daughter Amanda, 3, gazed anxiously out the front window of their Staten Island apartment. A newly nervous child, she turned to the cousin taking care of her and asked, "Is Mommy in heaven now too?" The question was brutally reasonable. Amanda's father, New York City fire department Lieutenant Joseph Gullickson, was killed on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center. Then last week her grandfather Jose A. Perez died aboard American Airlines Flight 587. The little girl can't help fretting: Who in her family will be next...
...York last week was a city double struck by tragedy, and its fear and grief were distilled in the story of the Gullicksons. During the long, sleepless nights, Naoemi says, she wonders what are the odds of life being so cruel to one family. Losing her husband, she thought, was more than she could bear. But then came her father's doomed flight, and the gaping hole in her life was blasted wider. "I never thought I could feel worse," the 38-year-old widow says. "But Jo would have helped me get through my father's death. I miss...
...memorial service, Jose wanted to spend a week in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. His wife Mamerta decided she would stay in New York in case their daughter needed her, in case Jo's body was finally recovered. "It's devastating my husband hasn't been found yet," Naoemi says. "And now it could be the same thing with my father. Is this a bad dream...
...magazine with pictures of big Victorian homes. "Let's go and look at some houses tomorrow," he said to his wife of five years. But for Jo, tomorrow was cut short. "I'm thankful I had him for the time I did, so thankful that he chose me," Naoemi says. "But it was too short. We had our lives planned for the next 40 years...
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