New York Times article excerpt on residents at Ground Zero,

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(Mer Muhammad/The New York Tima * Kyle Brooks and Elena del Rivero in their eighth-floor loft overlooking the site of the World Trade Center.

A Bittersweet Homecoming at Ground Zero . By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD big for what was, the glittering 110- The Christmas lights twinkle in the 12S CEDAR STREET: story giants whose office windows windows of her apartment at 125 Home at Last cast a welcome, entrancing glow in Cedar Street a glittering white cur­ her living room. She plans to keep the c ®c tain that hides the present and evokes the past Trade Center., Christmas lights up year-round. “I didn’t want to see outside so c Ota Elena del Rivero strungthem up a But the lights are not solely fes­ tive. They prevent Ms. Del Rivero much,” Ms. Del Rivero, an artist, । iOC couple of weeks ago in her eighth­ from staring out at what she euphe­ said the other day as movers hauled floor loft overlooking ground zero. her belongings back into her apart­ C' Ota She wanted to celebrate the season mistically calls “this” — the deep ment “1 wanted to have the light like c oc and, after 15 months of endless delay void, the churning construction ma­ we had before, from the towers. ” OtM and cleaning and anxiety, she wanted to herald her return to the building chinery, the blaring stadium lights, the memories of the nearly 3,000 lost After 15 months, it is finally time to return to 125 Cedar Street to live she and her fellow tenants fled after souls across the street the terrorist attack on the World And she hopes they satisfy a long- Continued on Page B6

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