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What's up? How's the week going? Things are getting back to normal down here in Houston. How's your brother doing - has he gone back to work?
-----Original Message----- From: Patty.Donahue@Chase.com@ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOTES-Patty+2EDonahue+40Chase+2Ecom+40ENRON@ENRON.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:08 PM To: cea_ali@hotmail.com; elizabeth.sprich@marriott.com; Rogers, Benjamin; bwein@exchange.ml.com; danaleewilmot@attglobal.net; jsuarino@hotmail.com; kim.campagna@msdw.com; LKERSON@aol.com; maryk410@aol.com; Amy.Schiller@pfizer.com Subject: Read this How amazing is this story. I worked with the father, he was an old H&Q guy and if anyone remembers, he is the one I used to smoke cigarettes with in his office. I am sure you remember when I went out to his funeral. Anyway, this story shows you just how amazing Rudy is after everything that has happened. RUDY KEEPS HIS WORD By KIRSTEN DANIS, DAVID SEIFMAN and BILL HOFFMANN September 17, 2001 -- Diane Gorumba of Brooklyn beamed with pride yesterday as Mayor Giuliani walked her down the aisle - and helped erase a nightmarish year of tragedy for the Brooklyn bride's family. The mayor kept a promise he made last month to Diane, 23, after her firefighter brother, Michael, who was supposed to give her away, died Aug. 28 while fighting a three-alarm blaze on Staten Island. "We will go on. This proves it right here. The mayor came here - he thought about us," the beaming newlywed said as she jumped into a limo with husband, Michael Ferrito, 31, a police officer at the 61st Precinct. Diane has already lived through 12 months of her own horrors. Her grandfather died Sept. 13, 2000, and 17 days later, her dad, an executive at J.P. Morgan Chase, also passed away. With her father gone, she asked her brother, a member of Engine Co. 163, to walk her down the aisle at St. James Lutheran Church in Gerrittsen Beach, and he agreed. Then, the Staten Island fire tragedy took Michael's life. At Michael's funeral, Diane sadly lamented to her mom, Gail, that there was nobody to escort her up to the altar. She half-jokingly turned to the mayor and asked, "Why don't you do it?" "I'd be honored," Giuliani replied, without missing a beat. Yesterday morning, Giuliani - who has been working round the clock since the Twin Towers horror - said the wedding meant "a great deal to him." The mayor recalled asking Gail Gorumba, after her son died, how she has kept going through her grief. "She feels the pain of it, she allows the pain to happen," Giuliani said. "But then she focuses on the good things that are left in life, like her daughter's wedding. I thought about that a good deal of time this week." The bride and groom's families said they will be eternally grateful to him. "It meant more than I can ever, ever say. He's the best, and I wish we could re-elect him" Diane said. As 225 people jammed the quaint 77-year-old church, the mayor gave Diane his left arm. Smiling happily for perhaps the first time since the Tuesday disaster, Giuliani - clad in black tie with a white rose in his lapel - slowly strode down the aisle and brought Diane to the groom. Then he lifted her veil and kissed her on the cheek. As the 30-minute ceremony proceeded, the mayor sat in the front row with the bride's mom. Afterward, Giuliani got into his car to head back to Manhattan, and the serious work at hand. Patty Donahue JP Morgan H&Q ph 212-834-4902 fx 212-834-6066 patty.donahue@chase.com
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