That was the horrific image of 9/11 and some of them jumping broke my heart. Ladies firmly clutching their purses like magic talismen on the way down. People holding hands.
I think you're have to be mighty desperate to jump because it's a sure death and how many people want to have their heads cracked open like ripe watermelons on the pavement?
One of my great uncles jumped out of a building on Wall Street the day the stockmarket crashed in the 20s. The family still talks about it.
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