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Brenda E. Conway: Half of a Lifelong Team

 

Brenda E. Conway was hard to miss. First, because of her unique style &emdash; an avid shopper, she preferred bright colors and patterns, and made funny socks her signature &emdash; and second, because you usually saw two of her. Mrs. Conway was rarely without her twin, Linda McGee. Though they were fraternal, the sisters still looked and sounded enough alike to draw attention.

"They were always together," said their mother, Edith Watford, pastor of the Second Chance Christian Center in the Bronx.

Mrs. Conway was a native of the Bronx, and lived there with her husband, Russell, and children Danielle Alexander, 19, and Mandell Conway, 13. A systems analyst at Marsh & McLennan, on the 97th floor of the World Trade Center, she would have been 40, and she often said that she did not need to have a lot of friends, because she had a twin.

Her sister said, "People ask me, am I dealing with it, and sometimes I say, no, I'm not dealing with it. Everything reminds me of her, because we did everything together."

The weekend before Sept. 11, the twins took a "ladies' day out" shopping trip with their daughters. Mrs. Conway bought almost a whole new wardrobe, now untouched. "She left behind so many new things," her mother said.

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From "Profiles in Grief" of The New York Times