When Deirdre Taylor was preparing to leave her Virginia home to fight Covid-19 in New York, she made sure to 1 a possession that she kept for over thirty, 2 : a front-page newspaper article.
This article 3 Taylor's rescue from a burning New York City apartment by a 4 in 1983. She was only four then. The picture on the front-page article shows a young Taylor with the man who 5 her, Eugene Pugliese.
"I always knew I came 6 to losing my life that day," Taylor told CNN. "I could have a second chance at life 7 him."
Today, Taylor, 41, is an emergency room 8 with a happy family. Ever since the incident, she wondered what 9 the firefighter who saved her, coming up empty when she 10 him online. 11 to spend two months helping in the 12 against Covid-19 at NYU Langone Hospital, Taylor saw this as a(n) 13 to find him.
During one of her shifts (轮班), Taylor gave an 14 of her experience to a fire fighter her. He called the current captain of New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in Manhattan, who 15 knew whom Taylor was looking for.
Taylor gave Pugliese a(n) 16 right after her shift and was very happy to hear his voice on the other end. "I wondered about him on 9/11 and hoped I would get the chance to thank him, and I finally 17 ," said Taylor.
Now 76 years old, Pugliese was 18 when he got the call from Taylor on Friday.
"We just sat there crying on the 19 ," Pugliese told CNN, "20 that he's had the same article framed on his wall for 37 years now."
