Even 25 years later, people aren’t quite sure how to reconcile celebration with the sadness of September 11.

“It catches people off guard,” Aaren Evans said of her birthday. “I have to sit with them for a moment and let them process it.”

More than 150 babies were born in New York’s major hospitals on that day in 2001. Evans is one of six that The Post met in 2002, as they turned 1, hearing from parents who recalled the emotional rollercoaster of devastation and joy as their children arrived into great uncertainty.

“It was such a bittersweet moment,” first-time dad Derek Parks said in 2002 of of his daughter Madison’s birth. “On one hand, this…

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