Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, he was consoled by naming her Billy.

尼尔森先生想给把他第一个孩子的名字取得跟他儿时玩伴亨肖先生一样，但是却生了一个女儿，也就是比利小姐。

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Billy, the middle child, was a student at Pace University in Manhattan and on Sept. 11 watched as terrified office workers jumped to their deaths from the upper floors of the World Trade Center.

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