Now, Rachel is coming to terms with being robbed of her life with Andy. "I spent the last 26 years of my life dreaming about getting married, hoping to Tiffany Notes heart tag key ring that person," she says. "Finally, I found that person and felt secure enough with myself, the relationship, and him that we were getting married. We planned all this stuff, and now Two Heart Triple Set of it is going to happen." Instead, Rachel put together a memorial service for Andy at the Central Park Boathouse, where he'd proposed.
"All of our friends who had never been together before in one place were there, which was what we were looking forward to on our wedding day," she says. "For an hour and a half, people got up and celebrated his life in person. Everyone Tiffany Fish drop Set me feel very special." Forced to leave the couple's Manhattan apartment because they had shared expenses, Rachel has temporarily moved in with her mother and is looking to find her own place soon. But she says she Tiffany Black Titanium Set feel sorry for herself. "I feel so lucky that Andy wanted to be with me, and I can go through life knowing that."
Jennifer Cobb, 28, and Bob McIlvaine, 26, started talking about getting married last winter after she got a job offer from Campbell's Soup and was Stencil Heart Hoop Set moving to New Jersey to take it. But Jennifer didn't know that Bob had actually bought her a classic single-diamond engagement ring until after he was gone from her life forever.
Within two years, they were living together, and just this past August, Andy surprised Rachel with an engagement ring on a rowboat in Central Park. While she'd known a marriage proposal was coming, she didn't know when. "I used to Tiffany 1837 Square tag key ring with him, What's the holdup? Are you going to propose to me or what? " says Rachel. "We were already like a married couple, but I wanted to plan our wedding. We were looking at apartments to buy, but I did not Tiffany 1837 Heart tag key ring to buy an apartment together if we weren't engaged."
On September 11, Rachel, a producer at Bloomberg Television, planned to spend the afternoon shopping for wedding dresses with her Elsa Peretti Open Heart key ring and her maid of honor. Instead, she watched on television as the building her fiance worked in was transformed into an Butterfly key ring and then crumbled. Andy, a bond salesman at a small investment firm, worked on the 104th floor of the second tower.
When the plane struck his building, Rachel felt instantly in her heart that Andy was dead. She knew that his office was above the fire and there Tiffany Notes Dangle Key ring no escape. Rachel refused to leave her office, staying until 5 P.M. At one point, she was shaking so badly that she knelt beside her desk and prayed.
Carrie was at work at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York-- two blocks from the twin towers-when the first plane hit. She was next to a window and saw the fire. Shaking, she picked up the phone to call Michael but put it down Tiffany 1837 Bar key ring several rings. He'd better not be answering the phone because he'd better be running out, she thought. At some point, Michael was able to call his father and told him he was on his way out of the building, but Carrie Return to Tiffany Heart tag key ring spoke to him herself. Since then, Carrie has had a recurring dream that she actually got to talk to Michael on the phone. "In the dream, I get to say `I love you' one last time," she says, which gives her a lot of comfort.
Andy O'Grady, 32, first spoke with Rachel Uchitel, 27, in September 1998 to set up a blind date. At the end of their conversation, Andy said, "It would be great if Return to Tiffany Oval tag key ring a love connection because we really get along on the phone. But if I think you're ugly, it'll be over.'" Rachel remembers thinking Oh my God, what a jerk!
When Andy called the next day to say he would pick her up after work, she decided to tell him that she was sick. But he didn't take no Return to Tiffany Round tag key ring an answer and brought soup and ginger ale to her apartment, where they talked for four hours. Andy was a Heart tag Key ring Irish-Catholic business guy-6 feet tall with short dirty-blond hair and a warm, teasing smile. "I remember thinking he wasn't necessarily my type, but there was something really endearing about him," she says.
Carrie Bernstein, 29, was supposed to marry Michael Wittenstein, 34, on October 20 and go on a honeymoon in Tahiti. Instead, Carrie spent Square cuff links day at a friend's country house trying to distract herself by going horseback riding. When they returned in the afternoon, Carrie took off her watch because she was obsessively checking it.
"Right now at this time, we'd be taking the wedding pictures," she remembers thinking. That Monday, as she packed to go back to Tiffany Metropolis Cuff links Hoboken, New Jersey, apartment the couple shared, the reality of life without Michael hit hard. It really happened; he's not going to be there, Carrie thought. We're not getting married and he's Frank Gehry Fish cuff links and I'm alone.
Michael's toothbrush is still in the bathroom, his towel is hanging on the door, and his clothes are in his closet. Carries not yet Tiffany 1837 concove circle cufflinks to pack up his belongings. In a way, losing Michael has made her wish that they had already been married. It's not that their love wasn't real and they weren't committed to each other, she says. "He wasn't totally Tiffany 1837 square cufflinks because we didn't get to stand there and say our vows in front of everyone," Carrie says, holding back tears. "Because we didn't have the piece of paper, I'll never be Carrie Wittenstein."
Ironically, Donnamarie and Steven almost got married in August. On vacation in Las Vegas, Steve "begged me to marry him" on the spot, but Donnamarie wanted to wait until their friends and family could be with them. She doesn't Elsa Peretti Eternal Circle cuff links the decision, she says, but the pain of losing him is unbearable. "His mother said to me, 'You don't understand, this is my only child," and I said to her, 'No, no, you don't understand, this is my only life.' I respect her Atlas cuff links for her son, but it's a completely different emotion. She's married; she has a husband, a partner in life. Well, this was my partner in life. My life has just been shattered, and I don't know how you ever come back from that."
In the weeks immediately after the attack, Donnamarie felt she had nothing to live for. She even reached the point that she Elsa Peretti Almond cuff links suicide. More recently, she has been experiencing the numbness of depression. "I have to force myself to get up, to do things," she says. The idea of having another relationship with a man is completely unimaginable. "I can't," she says, "because this one is so unfinished."
Carrie met Michael, a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, in October 1998 while in-line skating with a friend. Their relationship didn't get Tiffany 1837 Cuff links for several months because Michael, who was handsome and dark-haired, was reserved around new people. But once they did get to know each other, they both knew it was going to be forever. And when Tiffany 1837 Cuff links got engaged on August 7, 2000, "He was looking forward to the wedding and to being married as much as I was," says Carrie.