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Elizabeth Turner talks about how she is raising her son, born two months after her husband was killed in the World Trade Centre

Three days later, her thoughts had shifted from infant tableware to transport. By then, Simon, a 39-year-old financial publisher, was at his hotel in New York, getting ready for a conference and trying to reassure his wife over the phone.

Enough came on 20 September, when Pete rang Elizabeth's brother and sister and told them they had to make her understand that Simon was dead: everything that could have been done had been done; every avenue had been exhausted.

"I said, 'I don't know what I'm supposed to do now' . and almost, 'am I supposed to fall on the floor and start wailing'? And yet, there was just nothing. I think that was the over-riding sense; there was a feeling of nothingness."

William will be 10 in November and, considering what has happened, says Elizabeth, "he's a very happy, well-adjusted normal lad who's taken on an awful lot of information and dealt with it really well".