In August of 2000, I was heading out of my front door to go to a friend's wedding in Houston and literally was just opening the door dragging my suitcase out and my phone rang.

It was my mom. And she said, something's she said something's happened something's happened I didn't know what

but I dropped my case and ran downstairs to catch a taxi what little information I had I knew that my sister

who was to be married in two weeks something had happened to her fiancee but I

didn't know what.

I couldn't get a taxi because it was rush hour and everyone was fighting in New York City to get a taxi and so I begged a person to let me share with them and they did and I'm so glad I was able to get there

because by the time I got to the hospital I was the only person.

I was the only person with my sister when she found that her fiance had died. They were on a train on a subway heading downtown to get their marriage license.

And he wasn't feeling well, he felt faint.

And so as they pulled into the stop that they needed to get out of, he stepped between the cars to get air.

We don't fully know what happened, whether he fainted or had a heart attack, but he fell and he touched the third rail.

The official cause of death was electrocution.

My sister was holding on to his pant leg.

When it happened.

That happened 20 years ago in August.

And my sister said to me, can we do a podcast about it? And so that's what we're doing. She's sitting right across from me, and I don't think I've ever talked about this with her in 20 years since it happened.

We make references to it, but we've never talked about it.

So my first question for you is, why did you want to do this?

First of all, I've never even heard what happened that morning from your perspective.

Let me take a step back.

20 years is a long time and I've always kept this very close to my heart. I felt

this was my story, my grief, my, and I don't talk about it very often because it's

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