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50. A propos of nothing other than daredevils in high places,

I was in lower Manhattan the day Philippe Petit did his tight rope walk between the Twin Towers. There was a blind man near me in the crowd, and he asked, "What's everybody looking at?"

Over twenty years later, my FDNY husband watched one of towers collapse like a stack of pancakes. He said it was so riveting to watch that he was rooted to the ground before he realized he should run.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/newyork-tightrope/