It’s not every day that a bomb goes off when you’re sitting in your seventy-second floor office looking down upon The Statue of Liberty. Smoke climbed up our guest’s stairwells, but she had to climb down those same stairs in the dark with a knee brace on and a tissue covering her mouth and nose. Our guest, Paula LaCosta, sheds light on the reality of the World Trade Center bombing—straight from her very own encounter.