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– Twenty-seven hours after World Trade Center Tower 1 collapsed on September 11, 2001, Genelle Guzman McMillan was on the verge of giving up. She was in pain, unable to move in the rubble and, with dust in her mouth and nose, unable to call for help. “I knew I was not going to make it,” she said. “I am preparing to die.” Then she heard someone say, “I got you. My name is Paul. He took her hand and she held his. She remembers Paul telling her she would be fine. “I’m not going to let you go,” he said. Guzman McMillan searched for his rescuer for 20 years but couldn’t find him, People reports. “So we came to the conclusion that Paul was really my angel,” she said.
Guzman McMillan had moved to New York from Trinidad two years previously and enjoyed his acting job for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority on the 64th floor of the tower. After the tower was hit, she and her colleagues descended the stairs, reaching the 13th floor as the building collapsed. She no longer has nightmares but still faces the loss of her colleagues and friends. Her husband, Roger McMillan, said: “She has this kind of survivor’s remorse: ‘Why did my colleagues die and I survived?'” Guzman McMillan, now 50, was the last person to emerge alive from the rubble of the World Trade Center. .
The couple married less than two months later and raised three children. “We like each other knowing there was a 99% chance that I would almost lose someone I fell in love with,” McMillan said. His wife says 9/11 changed her “physically, mentally, spiritually” and strengthened her Christian faith, according to ITV. The experience does not fade away. “I live with this every day of my life,” says Guzman McMillan. “I see the scars on my leg, my wounds, I see them, I see them, I can’t escape nothing.” But she said she didn’t want it any other way. “I wouldn’t change that for who I am today,” Guzman McMillan said, adding that “I have had a new life”. There is a caveat: “I am blessed to be here, but I would like my other workers to be here as well.” (Saturday was a day of tributes.)
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