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Children of 9/11: 'I spent my childhood expecting him to walk through the door'

By Megan Agnew
The Times·
19 mins to read

More than 3,000 children lost a parent in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Twenty years on, the sons and daughters of some of the British victims talk about loss and remembrance.

Dan Wright was 13 years old when he first tried on his father's motorbike helmet. He shut the visor, did up the strap and stood still in the kitchen, overwhelmed, not knowing what to do with himself. It smelt exactly like his dad. The padding on the

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