"Our marriage was not perfect," she said, dissolving into tears.
"He died in the middle of a not so good patch ... I was desperate to tell him I loved him, before he died," she said.
Judge Leonie Brinkema summed up the horror of a day when several jurors battled tears, and all endured with a grim expression, saying, "It is an understatement to say this is difficult testimony."
John Creamer, 35, from Massachusetts told of his agonizing task of telling his son Colin, now eight, that his mother, Tara died on American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the twin towers.
Creamer told the court he stretched out on a bed with his son and told him: "Mommy is not coming home and she died."
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