Adianes Oyola

'She Gave Me Vision'
Adianes and Felipe Oyola were at work when they fell in love seven years ago and when they last saw each other on Sept. 11. They had met as teenagers - she was a cashier at the Brooklyn fast-food restaurant where he was a cook. "She gave me vision and motivation to better myself," said Mr. Oyola, who married her last year.

The couple made plans to save money, clear debts and move to Florida, where her parents and 13-year-old brother live. Both native New Yorkers, they craved a house almost as badly as they did children. "We didn't want to raise our kids here," Mr. Oyola said. "We wanted to give them things we never had. We've always lived in apartments, never having control. We wanted something of our own."

The Oyolas commuted together from their Brooklyn home to their jobs with Fuji Bank at 2 World Trade Center. She went to the 82nd floor, where she worked in human resources and payroll, while he went to the 81st floor, where he was supervisor of mail services. When the first plane hit the tower next door, the Oyolas found each other by a bank of elevators on the 78th floor. They were hugging when the speakers announced that it was safe to return to their offices.

Mr. Oyola went back first, leaving his wife with her boss and a co-worker. Then the second plane hit, and he barely made it out. His wife is missing. "She was crying," Mr. Oyola, 24, said of the last moments with his 23-year-old wife. "I told her everything was going to be O.K."