Lucia is a 35-year-old single mother, working as a linen manager for a 5-star hotel, with only her mother and her 4-year-old son living at her home. Lucia's husband also used to work in the same hotel with her, but he died only 2 years ago due to heart failure.
Lucia's mother was also a widow and the son was also very young, so Lucia would never show her grief to anyone. But inside she had become very sad and emotional.
Lucia's father Michele Paul was a senior government official and had reached the meeting hall at 8.30 a.m. on 11-9-2001 in a building called the world trade centre, Twin Towers in New York City, USA, to attend an important meeting.
There were still 15 minutes left for the meeting to begin. Before the meeting, all the participants were introduced to each other and talked lightly.
The meeting started at 8-45 o'clock, after 2 minutes of the meeting there was a terrible explosion in that building and the whole building collapsed like a pack of cards, thousands of people were injured and killed this news was flashed on televisions all over the world. After seeing the news on television, Lucia's mother also saw the news and she fell unconscious.
At that time, Lucia was only 15 years old and was doing high school, she had gone to school at the time of the incident, and she also got the news there that her father had been killed in the world trade centre twin tower attack.
A terrorist Group claimed responsibility for these attacks and stated that their objectives included Western support for attacking some people in Somalia and support for Russian atrocities against some people in Chechnya.
She immediately reached home from school and took care of her mother with the help of neighbours, since this incident, she used to take great care of her mother and she was determined that one day she would become rich and fulfil her mother's every wish, that's why she obtained a degree in Hotel Management with a Gold Medal.
She had a love marriage with one of her classmates whom she loved, but that too, unfortunately, this marriage lasted only six to seven years only then did her husband dies.
Now Lucia was the only support of her son and mother, so she had become very bold and never expressed her grief in front of anyone.
It had been 20 years since Lucia's father died because this incident took place in another country and the bodies could not even be properly identified, so the American government inscribed the names of all the dead by inscribing names of those who died there. Praying for the peace of the soul every year a peace prayer program was arranged by the locals and government.
Lucia's mother had a strong desire that she should also attend the prayer meeting at the Twin Towers someday to pray for the peace of her husband's soul.
This wish was also known to Lucia, but due to her busyness in her work and not yet being able to overcome her own pain, she was not yet able to fulfil this wish of her mother.
The second week of August was going on, and one day she got the news that her mother had fallen down while changing the bulb standing on a stool at home and she had broken her hip bone, Hearing this news Lucia came home and got the mother treated by the best orthopaedic surgeon in the city but after few days Still, due to old age, she could not recover completely and could walk only with the help of a wheelchair.
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The doctor told Lucia that now she is nearing 65 years of age, so her bones will not be able to cure completely and that is why she has started going into mental depression, hearing this, Lucia decided at the same time that she will definitely fulfil her mother's last wish, and taking this decision, she immediately booked two return Air tickets for the month of September to New York.
On September 11, she took her mother to a peace meeting near the Twin Towers, where her mother was very happy. She was moved to see her husband's name written on the inscription, her whole body trembled, she brought back the memories of the incident, and started twirling her fingers on her husband's name written on the inscription.
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Lucia also clanged to her mother that day and remembering her father and husband she wept bitterly and eased the hidden cloud of grief.
