His older siblings, he adds, “They had to deal with it and go through it.” “I was born into it, that’s just kind of how it is,” he says. Between now and June, they will turn 18, officially leaving childhood and becoming adults. Now a senior at the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, on the Upper East Side, Phelan is one of the more than 100 children born after their fathers died in the terrorist attack. And how my personality would be different because I think a lot of…a lot of my personality is based around this thing that happened,” she says. ![]() “I really do think about how my life would be different if he were around and how he would interact with me. It was also more than eight months after her father, a Fire Department lieutenant, died in the World Trade Center on Sept. That was her parents' wedding anniversary. Phelan is her father Vincent Halloran’s final gift. “I’m more reflecting on what I missed out on, versus the rest of my family, who’s thinking about who they lost," Phelan Halloran says.
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