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Gene Weingarten's avatar

A girl at 14 is "barely an adult." A boy at 14 is "barely a child."

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Marni Penning's avatar

Beautiful job, Valerie! And GENE!!!! That's a heckuva regret!

On Labor Day, 2001, one of my best friends came to visit me in New York, where I was living at the time. We did all the usual, touristy things, culminating in walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and back around sunset. He looked at me and said, "Where to next?" and I looked to our left and said, "Windows on the World?" It would've been great to have a drink at sunset looking out over Manhattan at the end of a gorgeous day. He looked at me and said, "Nah, it'll always be there." So we didn't.

And a week later…

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