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Towers of Unrealized Dreams: My 9/11 Story

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As a student at Stuyvesant High, Mohammad Haque witnessed the towers fall on 9/11. He writes about how that experience—and the loss of his uncle that day—changed his world forever.

I was a teenager attending Stuyvesant High School on the morning of September 11th, 2001. A bright-eyed senior, I was gazing out the window, staring at the north face of the North Tower, imagining how to get through calculus without paying full attention.

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