"You hear a lot of stories... «The First to Die at the End»

"You hear a lot of stories like that—about people who were supposed to be in the towers that morning but overslept or got stuck in traffic or rode the wrong train or felt sick so they stayed home."|take a deep breath. I can't believe I've been talking so much, and I can't believe no one has stopped me. "But my parents weren't lucky like that, so I was the last kid in the whole school."