Kelly Krieg-Sigman and Michael Sigman

Kelly Krieg-Sigman and her husband, Michael, talk about how they met.

Pepper Miller and her husband Ronald

Pepper and Ron Miller talk about what led to their divorce.

Majid Al-Bahadli and his wife Diana Klatte

Majid Al-Bahadli and his wife, Diana Klatte, remember how they met.

Barbara Cattano

In the early 1970s Alena Sesinova fled communist-controlled Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States.

She went on to become a systems analyst for Marsh and McClennan. She was working in their office in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.

Alena was 57 years old when she was killed. Her partner of 22 years, Barbara Cattano, remembered her at StoryCorps.

Recorded September 13, 2001.

Jim Crane and his daughter Missy Worden

Jim Crane tells his daughter Missy Worden what he liked best about college.

Originally aired December 17, 2010 on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Granvilette Kestenbaum

Howard Kestenbaum worked on the 103rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He was killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

His wife, Granvilette, came to StoryCorps to talk about how they first met while in graduate school—and how one unusual date led to a 31-year-long marriage.

Recorded July 16, 2010. 

Patricia Bates and her daughter Kay Lewis

Patricia Bates tells her daughter, Kay Lewis, about meeting Kay’s father.

Hilda Chacón and her husband Pedro Morán-Palma

Hilda Chacón and her husband, Pedro Morán-Palma, remember when they first met twenty years ago.

To see photos of the family, Sy Saliba talks to his daughter, Yvette, about her mother, Pat, who passed away from multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2005.