She went instead to her office at 111 Broadway, the Trinity Building, next to the towers. She was there when jihadists plunged the first plane into the north tower, and along with everyone else in her building, she fled. Mom was on a street below near the south tower when the second plane struck. When she boarded the ferry home to Monmouth County, N.J., her blue dress suit, now gray, was still wet. The people she’d planned to meet in the south tower had died.

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Persons: Michaela Ferrigine, Olivia —, jihadists, Mom, didn’t, — Organizations: World Trade, Trinity Locations: Monmouth County, N.J