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...will be other terrorists attacks and other American casualties--but you can't live your life like you're the next to go." How much sleep do we have to lose, how many routines do we change, before we should count ourselves as casualties? If we stop taking the subway, are we wounded? What if we skip a grandchild's baptism because we don't want to get on the plane? Have they won? That which does not kill me makes me stronger--but who decides which it will...
...ever-happen-to-me game. It's a necessary means of continuing to live in a city of eight million people, where the laws of statistics say that every now and then a horrible occurrence will make the news. Did a crazy man push somebody in front of a subway train? That couldn't possibly happen to me, you say. I never go to that subway station. I'm never out at that time of day. I never stand too close to the edge of the subway platform (do I?). Therefore, I am indestructable...
...married, and has not lost anyone. My fellow trainees and I are exhausted, numb, bewildered. We are doing too much. We are not doing enough. I have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having seen a movie, experiencing ceaseless diarrhea). You are having a normal reaction to an abnormal event...
...MBTA’s special operations team has been patrolling the subway and has made at least two stops in Harvard Square...
Hailing as I do from New York, the Capital of the Weird, this is saying a lot. The reassuring thing about New York, though, is that for the most part, you know what to expect. Hawkers in the park, Bible-spouting evangelists on the subway, disgruntled and tattooed psychics in the Village—a whole army of the strange and outrageous...