Summary

By the end of October of the year Pauline disappeared, Maggie started to clean out Pauline’s apartment, securing the fact that she was never coming back. Tammis and her husband, Jerry, helped clean out the place and take some of the furniture. All the while, the group tried to search for any clues to help them figure out what happened to their friend. They came up short.

Little over a year later, Maggie and Tammis arranged to celebrate Sonia’s sixteenth birthday at Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 107th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Tammis worked there as a hostess after having already quit the P.A. She overcame her fear of elevators, mainly because of the money she now earned. Maggie, as she watched Sonia open her gifts, noticed that since her mother’s...