Status Updates From Angel in the Rubble: The Mi...

Just before we get to the epilogue, I really like the quote "Forgiveness is about making peace with yourself in your own heart, … and with the ones you are forgiving." Even though I might not agree with all of her religious take on everything and viewpoint, I agree that forgiveness is something that comes from yourself and your own heart, then something external, & I think it's important for people to remember that

Oh my goodness we are doing so well and then this last chapter was so bad… It was so much proselytizing so much jumping to conclusions that were not OK and it read like a badly worded essay for English class… I had so much faith in this book before this… No pun intended

Now we've reached another arc of the story it seems… She listed a lot of different people's last moments and recollections from that day and stories and even phone calls, one from the restaurant Windows on the World on 106th floor, which was very interesting to hear. I think I've heard it in a documentary year too seems to be a famous conversation floating around. Was definitely here for this.

I still wanna know who Paul is. And good for her for becoming a legal citizen even if she did have some help. Also, congrats on her baby, and it's awesome to hear about the progress that she made and I'm happy that the Port Authority let her back and do a similar job!

So she has a scare about losing her leg, a cancer scare, but somehow she doesn't dwell on the immigration scare? The woman from her temp agency comes and says she has it taken care of and that's it?! It's 2026. I feel like we need to revisit this. Also the quote "God is my psychiatrist" is a great chapter ending.

Finally, halfway through the narrative! And I still have one more question: who is Paul? This is a really fishy situation and never got fully explained. I'm happy she's out though.

Hey, they mentioned John McLaughlin and Will Jimeno who were two Port Authority officers/cops also rescued from the rubble, the two before her which their stories are immortalized in World Trade Center (the movie from 2008?) Which is pretty cool because I'm familiar with their story from the movie. I wonder if they have a book…

Thank God to Paul literally! She is saved! Finally, someone found her in that rubble. It's about time.

Dang, she even knows some prayers. I don't even know and I was raised Catholic.

I feel so bad, she feels like she's lying because she's really trying to get a better life by stretching her visa, but at least she's being honest to God and to her faith in God she's actually being pretty down to earth about talking about it not too pious, like I said, and I like how it's narratively put, and how she's being genuine with God and talking to God from her own heart, but not being too pious or haughty

This was an interesting chapter because it wasn't too preachy, but it was talking about God and how she wants to close your connection and how she regrets not paying more attention to praying and becoming more closer to Him – the Abraham, God – and at the same time it was really sad reading the paragraph about how other good people were killed too… I also laughed at the line about the genie in the bottle

Poor Roger! Genelle, you should marry that man he was looking all over for you!!!!!

Poor Roger! Genelle, you should marry that man he was looking all over for you!!!!!

I feel so bad that she feels she's failed her daughter… She's just trying to make a better life and it's interesting that she inserted her husband and daughter's perspective later into the narrative, that definitely strengthens the story.

The towers just collapsed and it's so scary. I feel so bad for her thinking she just in a bad dream and I feel so bad for the engineer that insisted it was safe.

The towers just collapsed and it's so scary. I feel so bad for her thinking she just in a bad dream and I feel so bad for the engineer that insisted it was safe.