“I was so thankful to just be alive. Things that bothered me before... nothing, I have become much more peaceful and less worried about anything.”

Survivors’ Tales https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-04-me-62387-story.html (August 4, 1999)

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