Sean Rooney and Beverly Eckert met at 16, and while the adults warned them away from each other, they were together for 34 years until Sean was killed in the Twin Towers on 911. Yesterday Beverly was one of the 50 people who died in a plane crash near Buffalo. My radio mentors Davia and Nikki met Beverly in 2001 when she called the NPR Sonic Memorial phone line and shared the phone messages she received from her husband, Sean Rooney, shortly before he died. Beverly was on her way to Buffalo for a celebration of what would have been her husband's 58th birthday. When the project was honored with a Peabody Award, it was Beverly's story they chose to play at the ceremony. (I was exec producer of the Audie-award audiobooks for this project and member of their board. Another reminder of how we must treasure daily the love of our loved ones. Listen to Beverly and Sean's messages in this link .

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