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Richard-Lawson

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People who saw it said it just suddenly happened, but how sudden could something like this be?

Really, the only sudden part was the very end.

Was it better to be swiftly crushed or to slowly drown in your car?

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They needed some idea of the lives involved, of all the people they were searching for.

Theo and Linda Elsing were on the other side, heading to their daughters school for a meeting.

Theyd had to take a detour because of traffic, and werent even supposed to be on the bridge.

Theo slowed the car and told work he had to hang up.

and grabbing the dash as the car fell.

Aimee was excited about the trip, and about the play, but she was distracted.

Aimee closed her eyes.

There were many others, nearly two hundred in all.

A mother taking her children to her parents place in Portland.

A lawyer headed home after a frustrating morning in court.

A newlywed couple on their way to the airport, suitcases in the trunk packed with warm-weather clothes.

A whole panorama of livespeople trapped or injured or killed together.

They dug people out as carefully and as quickly as they could.

They sent divers into the water, afraid of what they would find.

Slowly, all across Greater Boston, the phone calls began.

To find out who, exactly, had just been lost.