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They found his body after seven weeks and held his funeral Nov. 9. "I still don't believe any of this is true," said his wife, Susan Watson, 39, of Smithtown. "I've never been alone for a day since I was 15." Watson, 39, worked eight years as an iron worker after graduating high school, building skyscrapers in New York City as he waited for a slot to open up so he could become a firefighter like his father. He was happy among the rank-and-file. He didn't want to hassle with the paperwork that comes with moving up in the profession. Watson liked the outdoors, the fresh air, camping with his firehouse friends and all their kids. He and four other firefighters took a trip to the Catskills in August. "He really did enjoy the down and dirty part of [camping]," his wife said. Three of those campers are gone now, lost at the World Trade Center.

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