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PATRICIA CUSHING, 69, of Bayonne, N.J., took her first flight on a commercial airplane Sept. 11 on United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. "She's been talking about this trip for a year," said her nephew, Steve Hasenei. "She's never been outside the East Coast." Cushing had planned to go to San Francisco. She was a retired service representative for Verizon Communications.

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