MILTON BUSTILLO: A Wife, a Baby, a
House
Life
had just begun to get sweet for Milton Bustillo. In
February, he and the love of his life, Laura Spordone,
had a baby girl. In July, the couple married and began
searching and saving for a home. Mr. Bustillo, an avid
baker, set aside every penny from his job as a computer
network operator at Cantor Fitzgerald. He was even
planning to market his own line of cookies and cakes over
the Internet. All the planning paid off, it seemed, when
the couple finally found their dream house in Toms River,
N.J.
But one week before the house was to be theirs, the
World Trade Center was destroyed. Mr. Bustillo, 37,
disappeared. "Everything was just beginning for him,"
said Mr. Bustillo's younger brother, Gilberto. "He was so
determined to do things right. He took his time starting
a family and buying a home. He wanted to be happy."
This week, a few days after his daughter, Alessandra,
was baptized, Mr. Bustillo's body was found by rescuers
at ground zero, and identified by his wedding ring. The
family, his brother said, is convinced that the discovery
was a gift from God. "At least we can say goodbye to him
the right way."
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