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Wilfred Amanfu and Margarita Mahil, the women whose life
he saved on September 11. (photo John Aravosis)

That's when he saw Margarita Mahil, a coworker originally from the Dominican Republic. "Because Margarita was new [on the job], she didn't know what to do. So I yelled at her, 'get out of here,' so she followed me," he says. At first, Ms. Mahil took her friend Wilfred's advice and began leaving the building via the stairwell. But then, she heard an announcement saying everything was all right, and that everyone should return to their offices. So she tried to do just that. That's when the second plane hit, fortunately before she was able to return to her floor. "Had Wilfred not told me to get out, I would have been sitting with everybody [on the 86th floor] when the second plane hit," trapping her on that floor until the building collapsed. 

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