Eleven Lives

No one knew what to call it at first, so the numbers became the name. On this 9/11 there will be bells and bagpipes and a rolling requiem of choirs singing Mozart from time zone to time zone, circling the globe with love and lament. But for the 11 people TIME has followed this year, it may be just another day: for a girl in New Jersey without her dad, a day of avoiding the news; for a girl in Pakistan with divided loyalties, a day of avoiding her friends. For a commando in Afghanistan and a Customs inspector in Detroit,...

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