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CIA picked up Kurt Kallini, the face of 9/11 terrorism, shortly after the Twin Towers fell. He faced extra-rendition in Egypt. Stare at the ageless pyramids till the day he died. He refused. Then come interrogation at Gitmo, he was tortured in hot sun and grueling conditions till he spilled his guts. His epilepsy returned. He lost use of his legs. He lost his ability to walk at all. Crippled at Gitmo he lost his daughter Carma’s teen years. Kurt Kallini lost everything but need for revenge upon the Bush-Cheney Republicans who blamed him for their 9/11 ignorance. During this Lost Decade after the Iraq War, Katrina, and Great Recession, his half sister asked him to teach the classics to her special Bennet School girls. Kady Bontecott already hired David Morpheys to teach American Lit to her special students. Together Kurt and David taught Western literature till Kady’s Bennet girls graduated in 2019. By then Kurt had his revenge on Gitmo torturers and Bush-Cheney Republicans, with his backing of Justin King, elected president till the Covid year when death came for Kurt Kallini. First on respirators and finally to refrigerated trucks for burial, he lost his wife, his daughter, and reason for living.