Her smiling infant photo in a 2002 book about 9/11 babies, like the terrible irony of her short life's span, is now almost too painful to contemplate.
Christina Taylor Green, the dark-eyed, energetic granddaughter of former Phillies manager Dallas Green, existed in the brief interlude between two great American tragedies.
Born just hours after the horrific attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the 9-year-old was killed Saturday in the Arizona massacre in which a congresswoman was critically injured and five others, including a federal judge, were slain.
"She liked having that birthday," her mother, Roxanna, recalled in a Sunday telephone interview. "She thought it was a holiday when she was little. We had to set her straight."
In Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9-11, a book by Pennsylvanian Christine Pisera Naman that spotlighted one child from each state, a wishful quote accompanied the black-and-white photo of the then-tiny girl. "I hope," it read, "you see rainbows."
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