New York exerts on him a boundless fascination. He was only ten years old when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed. However, the existence of Aurélien Terrible almost crystallized around this event. The young Nancy remembers that his father, on a business trip to New York on September 20, 2001, shortly after the reopening of airports and American borders, told him about the rubble, the tangled beams, the dead and this hole gaping left by the attacks in the megalopolis and in souls. New York, the indefatigable, invincible, gasped, lungs calcified. But her heart didn’t stop …
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