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:: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 ::

could you move on so quickly?

Today this report caught my attention on cnn.com. The gist of it is that passengers on one of the planes terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, planned to resist the hijackers, according to the widow of one of the passengers. But it's not so much the courage of the few who tried to do something about the doomed flight that caught my eye, but rather the widow's story.

Her husband suffered a tragic death barely over two years ago, yet the story reveals that she has since remarried. Now, I don't know if Julie and Brian Sweeney had marital problems before his untimely passing, but assuming that they were still in love (which it sounds like from his final call to his wife while aboard the plane), doesn't Julia's remarriage seem a bit quick in light of how recently her husband died? That didn't leave much time for these newlyweds to get to know each other before they tied the knot, did it? Two years tops? Moreover, the article doesn't reveal when they got married, leaving open the possibility that she could have remarried much earlier.

Perhaps Julia has an alarmingly quick grievance period. Perhaps she was financially dependent on her husband and is the type to remarry for financial security for her and (if she has any) her children. Your guess is as good as mine. However, being the speculative son of a bitch that I am, I can't help but wonder if she was cheating on her beloved late husband, or at the very least, she was no longer in love with him.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for trying to put the past behind and moving forward. But c'mon. Your spouse dies in this country's most tragic event this century. Would you be able to move on so quickly?

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