As a native New Yorker living abroad, 9-11 brought unimaginable feelings of loneliness. To add salt to the wound, my high-profile sports marketing career had crashed. It was time for a reset. Two months after that horrible day, I flew home for Thanksgiving. Landing in JFK, I was a stranger in a strange land. I'd been an immigrant in other lands, but to feel that raw vulnerability in my homeland, had America changed? Or had I?  Was there something I needed to discover in my own soul?