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I just read a recent blog post from SadieC http://notesfromanordinarylife.blogspot.com/   and I was reminded of a time when I felt exactly how she seems to feel just now. My grandson's 18th birthday party. The year was 2001, the month, September.  My daughter was pregnant with her son who was due mid September.  To be honest, I can't remember all the dramas of that year but I know hubby's dad died very suddenly and unexpectedly the previous year and I know we had not expected our daughter aged just 20 to get pregnant when she did but we got on with it as you do.  Then the biggie struck.  9/11.  One of those moments in time when you remember where you were, what you were doing and how you felt.  I was at work in an attic office in a park in Glasgow.   There was only myself and one volunteer in the office just after lunchtime.  The boss had gone home early and the officers were all out on site.  When the first plane hit the tow...