As I was growing up, I never lacked for anything. I always had more than what I needed and I was quite young when I realized that my parents were both very successful people. I was healthy and happy and I had everything a girl my age could ever want. I had the best Barbie dolls and the trendiest clothes and I had parents who loved me and gave me everything I ever wanted.

That all ended on day when the plane that they were on was hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center. I was numb as my life came crashing in around me. For days, I stayed locked in my room, not wanting to deal with the reality that life would never be the same again.

I was told that all of their money had been put in a child trust fund for me and I was sent to live with my grandmother, who did not believe in spoiling a child. I could not wait until I was old enough to take care of myself, and the day I was able to claim my money, I bought a house and moved out. I started spoiling myself with everything that I had been missing for the past six years and I started living again.

I know that this is what they would have wanted and I still think about them all the time.