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Albert Petrocelli died from COVID-19 in April, at 73 years old. His death marked the second time the Petrocelli family was touched by unexpected tragedy.

Nearly two decades earlier, Petrocelli, a retired New York City fire chief, and his wife, Ginger, lost their youngest of two sons, Mark, in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

In a 2005 interview with StoryCorps, Albert and Ginger remembered Mark, a commodities broker who was just two days shy of his 29th birthday when he died.

The last time Albert and Ginger saw their son was at their family's weekly Sunday meal, two days before Sept.

11. They had meatballs that night.

"It was 7:30, 8 o'clock at night when we said goodnight to him, and, actually, it was goodbye," Albert said.

It was an unfathomable goodbye at that.

"He hated fire.

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He didn't like planes. And he hated height. And it all ended that way for him," Ginger said.

Mark actually worked a few blocks away from the