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This is Love

Roselle and Michael

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that something was wrong was the sound of a muffled explosion. Then the building began to tilt, and he felt the floor drop like an elevator. But Michael Hingson didn’t panic because his guide dog, Roselle, was calm. Michael Hingson's book is Thunder Dog. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.3

I am Michael Hinkson. I happen to be blind.

0:33.0

Were you born blind?

0:36.0

Technically no, but in fact yes. Technically no because I was born two months

0:41.0

premature and was put in an incubator and given a pure oxygen

0:45.0

environment which caused the retinous to malform which is what caused my

0:48.6

blindness so technically two days after I was born but for all intents and purposes yes I was born, but for all intents and purposes, yes, I was born blind.

0:55.0

Michael Hingsen was born in 1950. These days, he lives in Victorville, California, with his wife Karen.

1:03.9

Back in 2001, he lived in Westfield, New Jersey and commuted into Manhattan every day for work.

1:12.3

He was the regional sales manager and head of operations for a company

1:16.4

that provided data protection and network storage systems. And his office was on the 78th floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center.

1:28.5

In 1999, Michael had gotten his fifth guide dog. Her name was Rosel. They worked well together, but for all of Rosel's professionalism, she was very afraid of thunderstorms.

1:42.0

She gave us about a half hour warning whenever a storm was She was very afraid of thunderstorms.

1:42.6

She gave us about a half hour warning whenever a storm was coming our way.

1:45.9

She would pant and she would shake and shiver.

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