A Heart Returned

Juliette Brisman has sought to reclaim the personal narrative of her experience as a 9/11 widow. She takes us with her on a journey of remembrance, recounting in vivid detail how she first met her husband Mark, fell in love with him, and began their lives together as a couple, as husband and wife, and as parents to two adorable children. The journey is not unfamiliar-dates at a mini-golf course, confronting the shock and sadness of a family divorce, a first apartment, the ambitious...
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Juliette Brisman has sought to reclaim the personal narrative of her experience as a 9/11 widow. She takes us with her on a journey of remembrance, recounting in vivid detail how she first met her husband Mark, fell in love with him, and began their lives together as a couple, as husband and wife, and as parents to two adorable children. The journey is not unfamiliar-dates at a mini-golf course, confronting the shock and sadness of a family divorce, a first apartment, the ambitious pursuit of professional opportunity, the fear of not being able to conceive and then the unbounded, anticipatory joy of expecting a first child. There is nothing particularly unique or exceptional in these moments, and perhaps that is the point. Juliette and Mark were living their lives; this was their story. Until it was not.With this poignant love story, Juliette Brisman has transformed the abstraction of mass death into something real and recognizable. She has, through her telling, saved a world of one.