Yvonne
Bonomo: Global Traveler
Yvonne Bonomo could not have taken more seriously the
word "world" in World Trade Center. Not only was she a
corporate travel booker for American Expressarranging
last-minute global gallivants for executives at Marsh
& McLennan on the 94th floor of 1 World Trade Center,
but she also loved jetting around the world on the
special corporate discounts offered to those in her
job.
Only days before the disaster, she returned from Las
Vegas, where she had attended a close friend's bridal
shower. Although Yvonne was living at home in Jackson
Heights, Queens, with her mother, Sonia, and father,
John, "she was really very independent," said her cousin,
Richie Fabrizi.
But Yvonne, 30, had contemplated sacrificing her
cherished independence over the last year; she became
engaged to her boyfriend, Anthony Vaccaro. "All we could
tell him is that Yvonne's cellphone records show that she
made a call to her mom at 8:51, after the plane hit," her
cousin said. "That call never went through."
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