Aleksandr Valeryerich Ivantsov

'He Was My Everything'
In 2000, Anna Ivantsov became a wife. In 2001, she became a widow. She was 20 years old. Fifteen months later, she spoke about her husband, Aleksandr Ivantsov:

"Aleksandr is Russian from a little place in Siberia called Abakan. He helped bring the Internet to Abakan. He found a job in New York through the Internet and worked at Cantor Fitzgerald as a computer programmer. His e-mail address was his nickname in Russian, Dobriy, which means a very nice person.

"For 23 years old, he was very mature. Before I came to New York, every day he would call me and tell me how he was getting ready for me. He was spending all his money calling me!

"We were all alone in the whole world here. There were two of us. Nothing else was needed.

"We loved dancing. We would take the ferry to Staten Island and go to dance clubs. If I get tired of dancing, he would take me in his arms. We were on our own; we could go anywhere and be independent. It was his character. He liked to be independent.

"I had this hope. I saw friends who were crying and I said: `It's only been three days. Let's wait. Miracles do happen.' And they were looking at me like, `Well.' Even in December 2001 I had hope. I even had a tiny little hope in October 2002.

"All I need to say is: He was my everything. That is very important to me to say."