July 23, 2011 11:30:50 AM
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Amy Correia's "It's Beautiful"

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I heard this song on my way into the city (from CT) to visit my sister -- who lived in Battery Park City until 9/11. It was about a week after the attack and it was my first time in. I was going to pick up my nephews and bring them up to my house.

I found this song -- so soaring with its magnificent chorus -- uplifting and majestic, and a tribute to the city (where I was born and raised) whose soul could never be vanquished. It gave me hope.

To this day whenever I hear it I think of that day and it makes me think of rebirth.

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Julie Curtis