![]() ''Wherever he went, the baby was with him,'' said Debbie Macielag, the boy's mother. He had started to dabble in home inspection, but mostly he spent time with his 2-year-old son, also named Paul. Paul Ruback, a 50-year-old firefighter at Ladder Company 25, was nearing retirement without much of a plan. ![]() Vincelli's friends found homes for the 17 cats found in her Harlem apartment. ''Everyone was screaming 'Happy New Year,' but she carried around a big apple that read 'Happy New Year, Times Square. But there were two jobs she dreamed about, another friend, Barry Lamm, recalled: personal assistant for Bill Clinton, and talk-show host. Vincelli, 38, was at the World Trade Center setting up for a trade show for DataSynapse Inc., where she was director of member services. ''She'd keep them in the bathroom until they got used to her, and then take them out to meet the other cats. ''She had this thing with cats she'd pick up stray cats and she'd bring them home, and she'd make them into house pets,'' Daryl DiMiceli said about his friend Chantal Vincelli. ''It was always the one place that never changed.'' ''With our moving so much, and not really being able to settle down and say this is home for good, camp was always there,'' she said. He found special solace at the family's camp on Little Long Lake in the Adirondacks, said Cyndy Duffy, his wife of 30 years. Duffy, 52, lived in Pittsford, N.Y., and was a senior vice president at Marsh & McLennan. But both forces worked on the friends, who met in first or second grade, played school sports together in Oneonta, N.Y., and were transferred numerous places through their jobs, often not far from each other. Was it centripetal or centrifugal force? Mr. When Thomas Duffy and Ray Cower were in ninth grade, they won third prize for a model they made, a coffee can attached to a drill that flung moisture from a wet rag inside. ''He had it practically funded, not that we were going to do it anytime soon.'' ''He wanted to buy a boat and sail around the world,'' with family and friends joining in for different legs of the trip, his wife said. Tartaro, 38, an executive vice president at Fred Alger Management, harbored big dreams of wider-ranging travel. After their son arrived, he took his place in the trailer, and the oldest girl rode in a one-wheeled bicycle attached to Ms. When there were just two girls, the parents would tow them in a trailer behind the tandem bike. The couple worked hard to get their children - two girls, ages 7 and 5, and a boy, 3 - out bicycling. ''He always did the thing that made the most sense,'' she said. Not that he was predictable, she said, but he was logical and reasonable. ''You do have to be exactly in sync,'' said Karen Reilly, who rode behind her husband, Ronald Tartaro. The person in front, usually the man, steers, sets the pace, makes the decisions. The front and rear riders have to be in tune, with no battles of the will, no bullying. It is not every man you would want to share a tandem bicycle with. ![]() He always brought a smile to her face with his wit and good humor, she said. Rodriguez, 31, an assistant vice president for information security at the eSpeed division of Cantor Fitzgerald, lived with his wife in White Plains. He had to call only when he got there and when he was leaving. Of course, that meant she had to stay home, chained to the phone. ![]() He used to have to call her when he got to Brooklyn, then after the first dive, after the second dive, and when he was leaving. The diving made his wife, Elizabeth Soudant, a little nervous. He even kept a framed map in his office of where the wrecks were. He would head out to Brooklyn or Long Island, shrug into scuba diving gear and, with others, explore long-sunken ships. The wrecks, as it happened, were shipwrecks. Not everyone would get up at 4:30 in the morning to look at wrecks, but Gregory E. Bethke said she got used to it: ''I'd just say, 'O.K., honey.' '' He was never quite able to communicate the love of technology to his wife, but Ms.
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