KAROLINA Gluck, 29, with her spiky blond hair, grins mischievously from a poster placed by friends at King’s Cross.
“Karolina is still missing,” it says, eerily reminiscent of the posters that blanketed New York City in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Ms Gluck, 29, was a Polish immigrant who was a receptionist – administrator at Goodenough College, a private postgraduate centre in Mecklenburg Square, St Pancras. She lived with her sister Magda in Finsbury Park.
Richard Deer, her boyfriend said: “I’ve cried a lot. She was honestly very special.”
Karolina left her flat on Thursday morning, visions of Paris swirling in her head.
After eight months together, she and Mr Deer were planning a cosy weekend trip to Paris. “A romantic holiday,” Mr Deer called it, just him and “Sunshine,” as he calls Ms. Gluck.
Ms Gluck arrived in London from Chorzow, in the south of Poland, nearly four years ago. She was determined to master
English and get a good job, Mr Deer said. She accomplished both, starting as a receptionist at the college and working her way up to receptionist-administrator.
He remembers her she walking away, dressed head to toe in black, her blond, spiky hair bobbing up and down as she headed for the Finsbury Park Tube. Her final stop was supposed to be Russell Square, near the spot where a bomb blew up on a train.
He tried to call her later that morning at work, at the college, but got bounced to her voice mail. He tried her cellphone, but got bounced to voice mail again. He resorted to e-mail, but never heard back.
• JENNY Nicholson, an advertising executive working in Tottenham Court Road, was confirmed dead yesterday (Wednesday).
Miss Nicholson, 24, was killed in the Edware Road suicide blast on Thursday.
Her tube carriage was going in the opposite direction to the train in which the bomber was travelling.
Miss Nicholson’s friend and colleague, Greg Tassle, a tenor at St Pancras Church, Euston Road, said: “The office has been very quiet. We’re a very small company and this has been a very sad day.”
Miss Nicholson lived in Reading and is the daughter of a woman vicar.
Deputy general manager of Rhinegold Publishing, John Simpson, said: “That sunny disposition made it impossible not to like her. Jenny was adored by all who met her and she will be missed more than words can say. We are devastated that she has been taken away from us.’
• A HOSPITAL manager from Highgate was last seen on the morning of the bombings by her boyfriend.
• Elizabeth Daplyn, 26, was travelling on the Picadilly Line towards Russell Square.
She is the manager of the Neuroradiology department of the University College Hospital in Bloomsbury.
• A CLEANER at the University College London in Bloomsbury was amongst those who died on the bombed bus in Tavistock Square.
Gladys Wundowa, 51, worked in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
She lived with her husband in Chadwell Heath in Essex.