e-mail message sent to relatives and friends days after the tragedy:

To all my friends in NYC and my favorite city in the world...

On September 11, I felt very guilty and frustrated. In fact I was not able to be in the city to offer my help and support to those how need it. In fact, a large ocean was separate me from the cherish Big Apple.
As you know, since I was little New York City attracted me like a magnet. Since then, I crossed the Atlantic several times for long periods for vacations trips as well as professionnal trips. At the occasion of one of my job in the city, I meet some of you. Today in a way I deeply fell like a "Euro New Yorker". This tragic day, I lost one major element that "release" my fascination and the love for this a little "insane/mad" city. To honour the memory of the people who worked at WTC One and Two, this days I remember the nice talks and conversations I used to have with some of them at the occasion of nice summer sunny midday lunches at the WTC Sphere Squareƒ Indeed, as you know, some of the hot season days, I used to go to the "esplanade" of the Twins Towers for lunch time as well as enjoy the freshness of the towers shadow.
Furthermore, as a graphic designer I have a special thought for the beautiful pink crystal skyline of the Twins Towers at sun down. Remember, when I worked in the city I used ride the F subway line at Smith and 9th Street section It was possible to see the Twins Towers skyline in the far. They were unbreakable. Every morning I used to be like a kid in front of the window of the subway car between 4th Ave and Carroll Street.

Nowadays with an extreme brutality in a way we passed the bridge gap between chillness and the non-romantic world of the adults.


Once again bless all New Yorker...