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From: Garner,
Cheryl Shammes,   Cheroneg (at) aol(dot)com


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Rebuilding With New Job 
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By Ann L. Kim
STAFF WRITER

September 17, 2001

In the spring, a week before Passover, tragedy struck Andrew Zucker's life 
when his wife, Erica, miscarried two weeks before the due date of their 
daughter.

By August, Zucker, a 27-year-old lawyer who grew up in North Massapequa, was 
finally recovering from the loss of his first child and had started a new job 
on the 85thfloor of Tower Two in the World Trade Center.

Last week, as Rosh Hashanah approached, Zucker's family prepared for another 
loss, as their pleas for information have gone unanswered.

Family members have been gathering at his brother Stuart Zucker's Woodbury 
home and finding themselves in an odd state that one family member called 
"pre-mourning."

Without a body, they cannot begin the traditional seven-day Jewish mourning 
period known as shiva. Yet chances of finding Zucker are slim. "I think we 
all know the truth at this point," Stuart Zucker said.

After the first hijacked airliner struck Tower One about 8:45 a.m., Andrew 
Zucker and his co-workers began fleeing Tower Two. Erica Zucker reached him 
by cell phone about 8:55 a.m., and he said he was in a stairwell, his brother 
said. Co-workers at Harris Beach LLP told Zucker's family that Andrew was 
organizing the evacuation. One recalled seeing him on the 78th floor before 
the second jet crashed. "I'm convinced he was right near the impact," said 
Stuart Zucker.

Andrew Zucker's family - his wife, parents, Sue and Saul Zucker of North 
Massapequa, older brother Stuart and older sisters Gayle Mosenson of Woodbury 
and Cheryl Shames of North Massapequa - are fielding calls from hundreds of 
friends - from Plainedge High School in North Massapequa, where he graduated 
in 1991, to the Bronx district attorney's office, where he worked for a year.

"Anybody that ever met Andrew never forgot him," Stuart Zucker said. "He was 
loud and outgoing. He got on everyone's nerves four times a day, but did 
something five times a day to make up for it." 

Copyright (c) 2001, Newsday, Inc. 

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This article originally appeared at:
http://newsday.com/news/printedition/newyork/ny-iezuck172369758sep17.story 

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