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But it had been an intense time that they had shared with Josephine, and the six were notready to turn her over to another company. D'Agostino said that when a firefighter finally discovered them there, he was so pumped up that he rushed to take Josephine from them, calling her "Doll" and saying, "We'11 take care of you，Doll. We got you."
可是，由于他們與約瑟芬共同度過了那么緊張的一段時光，6個人不愿把她交給另一個連隊。達格斯迪諾說，當一個消防隊員終于在那兒找到他們時，他激動萬分，沖過來要把約瑟芬?guī)ё撸兴皩氊悺保f“我們會照看你的，寶貝。有我們和你在一起呢。”
But after all those hours of sharing the limbo between life and death with her, it seemed to them inappropriate not to give her the honor due her. D'Agostino said he grabbed the rescuer's arm and explained, "Her name isn't Doll. Her name is Josephine." When he thinks of it now, he shakes his head. Even in the midst of the excitement of recovery and the terrible fright through which each soul had journeyed, the other firefighter recognized the holiness of the moment and apologized, saying,"Sorry, Josephine, we'll take good care of you."
可是，和她一起經歷了這么多時間的生死劫難，不向她表示應有的敬意似乎是說不過去的。達格斯迪諾說他一把抓住救援者的手臂解釋道，“她不叫寶貝。她叫約瑟芬。”如今他回想起來，還是搖了搖頭。即便人們沉浸在從曾經都經歷過的極度恐怖中恢復過來的興奮激動之中，那位消防隊員還是意識到了當時那神圣的時刻，道歉說:“對不起，約瑟芬，我們會照顧好你的。”
Ultimately, because special equipment was required to remove her from the wasteland that Ground Zero had become, Josephine was taken away from the men of Ladder 6 and they parted.
最后，由于需要用特殊器械把約瑟芬從世貿中心的廢墟中移出來，她從云梯6連隊員手中被帶走，他們分手了。
As I sat around the table with Sal and Mike and Bill and Tom and listened to them tell it one more time, I could see that the talking about it was part of the process — that we understand so much through stories. They had a reunion with Josephine at a later date, gave her a special jacket and called her their "guardian angel." While she says that they saved her life, they contend the opposite. They believe that by insisting that they stop there at that spot, at the only place left standing at Ground Zero, holding it as a sacred space, Josephine had saved their lives.
我與薩爾、麥克、比爾和湯姆圍坐在一起，聽他們再一遍講述這個故事，我意識到講述本身也是過程的一部分——故事使我們領悟到更多。后來他們與約瑟芬重逢，贈給她一件特殊的夾克衫，稱她為他們的“守護神”。她說他們救了她，他們卻認為恰恰相反。他們認為，正是由于約瑟芬堅持要他們待在那個地點，那個整個世貿中心被夷為平地后唯一殘存尚未倒塌的地方，那個她視作神圣的處所，她拯救了他們的性命。
