Alen同那场人祸没有太多干系。他的烦恼在于女病人的骚扰、合伙人的呼来喝去、双亲的年迈多病、女儿的偶尔任性以及妻子可能的过分关爱。平凡人，平凡的苦恼。但当他在餐桌上提起，见到了 Charlie ；女儿问是谁？他说，他 是他以前的大学室友； 他的家人，在一场空难中过世了。女儿接着问：是那场空难？是的。接下去，餐桌上没有人再说话了。
I had three daughters. Gina was 5. She was... Jenny ... was 7. She... She liked boys already. Julie was 9. She was older. They all looked alike, Johnson. Like Doreen. Doreen was my wife. D.T. That was her nickname. Doreen Timpleman. She had a dog, Spider. Spider. A poodle. They'd wake me up all the time, Saturday mornings, you know ... singing Beatles songs to me, in harmony. The four of them. So cute. So cute. Doreen never, never judged me. You know? Never nagged, like some wives do. She just wanted me to take my shoes off... so I didn't wreck the carpet. Doreen and the girls were very female. I was the oddball, you know? Mr. Man. They adored me, Johnson. I bet they did. They had long brown hair... except little Gina. She kept her hair short, you know. To be different from everybody. She... She had a birthmark too. Looked like a burn ... but it wasn't. When she was little, they said it was gonna go away ... but it never did. Jenny. Jenny, this one... she wanted to be a gymnast. She was such a klutz, though. I didn't have the heart to mention it as a problem. They went to see... Doreen's sister, Ellen, and her girls in Boston... and they took Spider because... I had to work and they didn't trust me to feed her. But that was a joke, right? And then... we were all going to D.T.'s little cousin's wedding ... in Los Angeles, and I was gonna meet them out there. The kids wanted to go to Disneyland... but they had-- They were already gonna miss a couple days of school... so we had to say no. You know. So I'm going on out to meet them in Los Angeles. And on my way to JFK, I'm in the taxicab... and I hear on the radio.... I get there and some man tells me the plane's from Boston. Some other guy says there's two planes. Then I go inside the airport and I'm watching-- I'm watching on the television and I-- And I saw it. I saw it and I felt it at the same time. I thought about Gina's birthmark... and I -- I felt them burning.
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