In 2005, four years after 9/11, I remember my dad taking me to the Greenwich Village site as part of the Tiles for America Project, where we painted images on a ceramic tile to hang near Ground Zero. I had just turned 11 years old. My tile showed raindrops falling onto a rainbow, with the words: “After it rains comes a rainbow.” It was a small act of tr…
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