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𝟛𝟙. 𝔾𝕦𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕚𝕕𝕠𝕟. ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝔸𝕣𝕖𝕤. ℂ𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 ℍ𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤. 𝔹𝕖𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕓𝕪 ℤ𝕖𝕦𝕤.

[💋 @tayalghul]

2023.12.21 - 2025.09.20

The military cycle is coming to an end 🙏🏾 Sehun will be missed but time will fly before they’re all together again.

Well wishes, and a safe return ✨

#EXO #SEHUN

[💋 @tayalghul]

@JHSAS64 I was gone send this to you ask if that was him bc I thought I was trippin REAL BAD!

[bless @blessthebeautyy]

Today was my first day babysitting for them and tell me why the mom accidentally opened a room that had a bunch of nazi memorabilia in front of me

[💋 @tayalghul]

This one and pants on the ground had me in literal tears 😂😂😂

[Nyne @nyne_tailed_fox]

Kids today wouldn’t understand how big of a pop culture moment this was 😂😭

[A Y A🧁 @ayaofchaos]

one thing about klaus he will put his siblings in a box with 0 hesitation

[Rac~heal @only_racheal]

Me realizing october 1st is next thursday… like how is september over already?!😂

[PerfectlyImperfectSavagéᥫ᭡♎️ @Trecee82728]

Proof that Black American culture is the superior culture of America😂😂😂

[Izhaan @Izhaasays]

we went from sept 1 to sept 22 in 10 mins, at this rate, new year’s is tomorrow

[💋 @tayalghul]

Surely did. I was shocked. Especially bc my gap is literally during COVID.

[tesla adrianne @tesladrianne]

has anyone in a real job interview ever been asked about a gap in their resume or is that a trope based on insecurities about productivity

[💋 @tayalghul]

I ain’t even from Philly but you see it enough in STL, I just shrugged and was like yep he’s right where he wanna be.

[Lianna again. @liannanannerss]

The most unserious place on the planet.

[TheOlChippy @TheOlChippy]

There is some incredible detective work happening right now around one lost 9/11 photograph, and the story keeps getting better.

Just five days ago, @jonwalczak , director of 32 Frames, posted Frame #20 and asked for help identifying the seven people seen evacuating the World Trade Center shortly before the North Tower collapsed.

At the time, none of them had been identified.

Walczak also pointed out that the same group appears in a photograph taken by FDNY firefighter Bertram Springstead.

Then, buried in the replies, @StanleySkoglund suggested that two of the people might be Paul Carris and Judith Toppin, whose escape was later featured in the BBC podcast 'The Woman Who Saved My Life'.

That opened everything up.

Within days, Frank Varriano was confirmed by his family. Others began falling into place. Walczak eventually spoke directly with Paul Carris, who was stunned to see a photograph of himself escaping that he never knew existed.

We now know this single image captured two separate rescue stories.

Frank Varriano and Mak Hanna helped Moe Lipson escape. Lipson, who was on the 88th floor of the North Tower, is often described as the oldest person to escape the towers that day.

Paul Carris helped Judith Toppin escape from the 71st floor. Judith went on to write a poem that spread quickly called “Angels Walk Among Us”, which detailed her harrowing escape from the north tower.

Dennis Switaj has also been identified, leaving only one person in the photograph still unknown.

Most of these people had no idea this photo even existed. More than 25 years later, they are seeing themselves escaping the North Tower only minutes before it collapsed.

Pretty remarkable.

And there is still one face left.

Maybe someone out there can help finish the investigation.

[💋 @tayalghul]

Hmm…well that’s unfortunate…..

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States -- innocents like our family and the others here -- against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."

[Las Vegas Aces @LVAces]

WNBA champion. WNBA MVP. 11x WNBA All-Star. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁. 💐👏

Thank you for all that you've done for the game of basketball and for women's sports. ✨

Congratulations @nnekaogwumike on a legendary career and wishing you all the best in your retirement! 🫶

@wnba // @LASparks

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

Lauren Manning ran out of the North Tower while her body was still on fire. Burns covered 82.5 percent of her body. Doctors believed she had a 90 to 95 percent chance of dying, while her 10-month-old son was waiting at home for a mother who might never return.

She had not even reached her office yet. That delay may have saved her life.

Manning was a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, whose offices occupied the upper floors of the North Tower. On the morning of September 11, 2001, she was running late and entered the lobby just as American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. High above her, all 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who were at work that morning would die.

Then the fire reached Lauren.

Jet fuel and flames blasted down the elevator shafts. The doors exploded outward, and a wall of fire engulfed her. Her clothes caught fire. Her hair burned. Her skin began burning across most of her body.

Lauren did not wait for someone to rescue her.

She ran.

Still on fire, she somehow made it out of the North Tower and across the street. A stranger eventually reached her and put out the flames.

The damage was catastrophic. Burns covered 82.5 percent of Lauren's body, most of them third-degree. Some were so deep that they damaged muscle and bone. Her lungs had also been injured by smoke and fuel inhalation. At NewYork-Presbyterian's burn center, doctors estimated that her chance of dying was between 90 and 95 percent.

Lauren understood enough to know how serious her condition was. But before heavy sedation took over, she made a decision. She had her husband, Greg. And she had Tyler, her 10-month-old baby boy.

Greg later wrote that while Lauren was at St. Vincent's Hospital, she told him she had decided to live for Tyler and for him.

Then the real fight began.

Lauren was placed into an induced coma for almost two months. Her lungs collapsed. Severe infections threatened her life. Doctors performed one operation after another, including skin grafts, procedures on her joints, and partial amputations of her fingers. During that initial hospitalization, she underwent 11 major surgeries, many of them involving multiple procedures.

There were days when simply staying alive was the only goal.

Her husband stayed beside her. He talked to her even when she could not respond. He read poetry to her and told her about Tyler. Friends and relatives constantly wanted to know whether Lauren was still alive, so Greg began sending email updates. He signed every one the same way:

"Love, Greg & Lauren."

Lauren was fighting for her life while the full scale of September 11 was still being kept from her. When she eventually regained consciousness, she did not immediately understand everything that had happened. Only later did she learn that both towers had collapsed and that 658 of her Cantor Fitzgerald colleagues had been killed.

Then another frightening question entered her mind.

Would Tyler recognize her?

The mother who had left home on September 11 no longer looked the same. Her hands were badly damaged. Her body was covered with grafted and scarred skin. She had been unconscious for weeks and could barely move.

But Tyler was still there.

So Lauren began learning how to live again.

Sixty-six days after the attacks, she walked approximately 30 to 40 feet from her hospital room toward the nurses' station. Her physical therapists were so stunned by how far she had managed to go that they ran to get her parents. People on the burn ward cried as they watched her standing there.

Those few feet were only the beginning.

Lauren spent more than six months in the hospital, and her recovery continued for years. More procedures followed. The pain never simply disappeared. Even two decades later, she described living with ongoing pain, fragile skin, infections, and complications caused by her injuries.

But September 11 had not taken away what she had been fighting for.

She went home. She raised Tyler. Later, she had another son.

[The Tyranny of Shavonne @theeprblm]

@arriarrio On the dot, she got summer out of here 😭

[💋 @tayalghul]

DAY ONE! Ain’t even give us a breather. Cold wet and disgusting.

[last evil woman alive @arriarrio]

wait fall actually started IMMEDIATELY 😭😭

[RJ👑 @iamthathooper]

next yr🦋

[I’ll be Nick for Now @Comedian_NickM]

This is why we gotta keep Ebonics out of wrestling

Because racial shit aside, the phrase “lemon pepper stepper” has nothing to with chicken anyway 😭

[Steph @StephanieYeboah]

Mamdani’s PR and comms team are egregious. 😂

[𝑔 ★. @gaiatraphouse]

who the liberty just got belt from btw:

[Borjomi ᛉ Respecter @BorjomiDrinker]

This iced coffee interview discourse is insane
I asked my boomer MIL for her take, she told me back in the 70s she asked to bum a cig off the manager interviewing her - he obliged and they lit up during the interview. She got the job and that was the beginning of her career in that industry. Everyone is just neurotic and insane now.