![]() I literally said out loud, ‘I’m doing nothing today. “So when I got up around noon, it was such a gorgeous day,” she said. She slept a little, got up to help get her kids, then 11 and 7, off to school, turned off her phone and went back to bed. Jacobs said she had gotten home around 2 a.m. They were on the phone when she cried out, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God” after an airplane hit the second World Trade Center tower. senator, was on an Amtrak train barreling toward Washington when his wife got through to him. “And then I found out she was home.”īiden had gone to teach her class at Delaware Technical Community College, then went straight to her sister’s house after school was dismissed. You learn to take life as it comes at you.“I called Bonny to see where she was because I was scared to death … I didn’t know where she was, whether she was flying, not flying, where she was,” Jill Biden recalled in the AP interview. You never know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. I figured life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. Just the other night, I was sleeping under a bridge and now, here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. Who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's going to happen or. I've got air in my lungs and a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I've got everything I need right here with me. Right, Dawson.Īnd you find that sort of rootless existence appealing, do you? I work my way from place to place, you know, tramp steamers and such, but I won my ticket on Titanic here in a lucky hand of poker, a very lucky hand.Ī real man makes his own luck, Archie. Well, right now, my address is the RMS Titanic, after that, I'm on God's good humor. Never did like it much.Īnd where exactly do you live, Mr. He has every rivet in it, don't you, Thomas? Just start from the outside and work your way in. Rose and I differ somewhat in our opinion of fine art. He was kind enough to show me some of us work today. He was of some assistance to my fiancée last night. ![]() Dawson is joining us from the Third Class. Tell us of the accomodations in steerage, Mr. I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down. That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. I guess I'm kinda hoping you'll come back over the railing, an' get me off the hook here. Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you. At least, not about anything but the pain. it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. Anyway, I, uh, I fell through some thin ice and I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there. You just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl. I remember when I was a kid, me and my father, we went ice fishing out on Lake Wissota. ![]() Well, they have some of the coldest winters around. You ever, uh, you ever been to Wisconsin? Tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold.įreezing. You let go, and I'm, I'm 'onna have to jump in there after you. What do you mean, "No, I won't"? Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do, you don't know me! No, stay where you are! I mean it! I'll let go! Oh ho, ho, well well well, now who's being rude?Ĭome on, just give me your hand. Wait, I don't have to leave, this is my part of the ship. ![]() I've sought you out to thank you, and now I have thanked you. You are rude and uncouth, and presumptuous, and I am leaving now. I don't know you and you don't know me and we are not having this conversation at all. ![]()
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