On September 11, 2001, I learned of a plane hitting the World Trade Center by seeing it pop up as a headline on AOL while I sat waiting for someone to agree to meet for sex. Only when my mom called me from her office to tell me it wasn”t some small bi-plane did I tear myself away to turn on the TV, where I saw the second plane hit.

At that very moment, my life was in the crosshairs of the FBI and a local TV news crew.

Tim Russo