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Mark Charette, who was in a meeting in the north tower on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, spent Christmas Eve 2000 with his three children, Andrew, Jonathan and Lauren. Charette and his wife, Cheryl Desmarais, met at Penn and both graduated from the Wharton School in 1985. (Courtesy of Cheryl Desmarais)