Word: oyola
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...Tuesday, after hearing the first crash in the neighboring tower, they met in front of the 78th-floor express elevators. But an announcement assured them they were safe, so they parted and went back upstairs. After the second explosion, this time in their building, the room collapsed on Oyola. He groped his way to a staircase, made it all the way outside, and started looking for his wife. Then he heard what sounded like a train barreling toward him. It was, in fact, the sound of 110 floors collapsing on top of one another. "I just started running. And after...
...Oyola's Brooklyn apartment serves as a mini-command center to coordinate the search. Friends have posted flyers and e-mailed photos, telling everyone to look for a 5-ft. 4-in. woman with brown eyes and long, recently dyed, dark red hair. He can't stop shuffling from hospital to hospital, can't stop staring at the TV screen. "I want to turn it off, but I can't. I'm hoping that I'll see something, that I'll see her." He owes her this, at the very least...
...after the report is finally filed, Oyola does stop. He stares far away. He says he can't feel lucky to be alive because his wife is gone. With that, his mother-in-law Rivera jumps out of her chair, tears running down her face, and kisses his cheek. She has driven 18 hours from Florida to find her daughter. "Don't lose your hope, for me, don't lose your hope," she whispers. On Friday, Rivera drops hair samples off at the Armory. Oyola cancels Adianes' bank card and spends the rest of the day wandering around Brooklyn, unable...
...long line for filing missing-persons reports, an elderly couple holds hands and stares straight ahead, not speaking. A pregnant woman in a brown knit dress shifts her weight from one foot to the other. And Felipe Oyola, 24, and his mother-in-law Nelida Rivera fill in a form that more than 4,900 other families have filed since Sept. 11. Name: Adianes Cortez-Oyola. Birthday: Aug. 9, 1978. Marital status: Married--on March 25, 2000 (in St. Agatha's Church in Brooklyn; she and Felipe planned it all themselves...
...Felipe Oyola and his wife Adianes did listen to the announcement. When Oyola heard the first explosion in his office on the 81st floor of the south tower, he raced down to the 78th floor to find her. They met at the elevator bank; she was terrified. But when the announcement came over the loudspeaker that the tower was safe, they both went back to work. Oyola was back on 81 when the second plane arrived. "As soon as I went upstairs, I looked out the window, and I see falling debris and people. Then the office...