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Annie writes: 2021 was the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I read about the accounts of the people who jumped – those who were in the floors above the point of impact, or those whose escape routes were blocked. I hesitated long and hard over this idea and nearly gave up at various points of writing it – for obvious reasons. Who am I to even begin to understand this?
Then I listened to an interview where a man recounted the final moments of his young wife, who passed away in the 9/11 attacks. He said that they were on the phone, and he could hear the noise and panic around her. She was a go-getter, and she had made the decision – and told him so on the phone – that she was going to jump, before they lost reception. He said that was completely like her to choose this – that she wouldn’t have waited for the inevitable, she would have made a choice.
And then he said, very softly, “For a moment, it must have felt like flying…”
(The live recording below generously provided by Coro Innominata 2025.)
It Must Have Felt Like Flying
SSATBarB with piano
It Must Have Felt Like Flying live recording