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Rose Riso's brother Peter holding her work identification card.
(photo John Aravosis)

Rose Riso loved her job at the World Trade Center. "She enjoyed the Trade Center prestige," her brother Peter says. "Just like you say you're working at the White House. Really something special." To date, Peter Riso has yet to hold a memorial for his lost sister, though he understands that sooner or later he must accept her fate. Mr. Riso says that after September 11, "Mom would have told me 'go find Rose.'" He's been trying to do that every day since, still with no luck. Ms. Riso's remains have yet to be found, and all that Peter Riso has of his sister is her photo identification badge, uncovered in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, remarkably intact. Nowadays, Peter Riso is trying to go on with his life as a butcher in New York's Upper East Side, but it is tough for him. "I can't fill her shoes," he says of his sister. "I'm not Rose." 

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