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Hi briefing listeners, Mark here.

Today and for the next few weeks we'll be dropping our new podcast FT Weekend into this feed every Saturday.

It's a show that brings the best of our award-winning weekend journalism into audio form,

with everything from culture and food in the arts to nuanced questions and big ideas.

We hope you like it. You can subscribe in your podcast app of choice by searching for FT Weekend.

So many of us came of age with 9-11.

We tell our stories around this time, and I'll only tell mine to remind you that none of them are unique.

I was in seventh grade. They told me at school.

My cousin Timmy worked there, and he almost died, and he did it.

And we're grateful, and he doesn't like to talk about it.

My sister moved to New York a month later, and when we dropped her off, there were missing posters everywhere.

For people, real people.

And I thought, why are we leaving her here?

How could this be a place where someone could be happy?

Ground Zero became the backdrop of my early 20s.

I weaved in and out of Lower Manhattan for different jobs.

I was a generation too young to have been there in 2001, but I found 9-11 in the corners, in little ways.

One day there was a small earthquake, and our buildings weighed slightly.

And I watched my older colleagues bolt down the stairs and not return.

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