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'Dust lady' of 9/11 dies of cancer A 9/11 survivor whose photograph became one of the enduring images of the terrorist attacks has died aged 42 after suffering from stomach cancer. Marcy Borders became known as the "dust lady" after a photo showed her covered in dust as she escaped the World Trade Center during the attacks. Ms Borders, a mother of two, died on Monday, her family said on Facebook. She blamed her cancer on inhaling dust during the attack and suffered from alcoholism and anxiety in later years. "I can't believe my sister is gone," her brother Michael Borders wrote on Facebook. Her cousin John Borders called her a "hero" and said she had "succumbed to the diseases that [had] ridden her body since 9/11". "In addition to losing so many friends, co-workers and colleagues on and after that tragic day ... the pains from yesteryear have found a way to resurface," he added. On 11 September 2001, Ms Borders was just one month into a new job at Bank of America on the 81st floor of the north tower when the plane hit. "The building started quaking and swaying. I lost all control, and I went into a frenzy. I fought my way out of that place," she told the Daily Mail in 2011. Defying instructions from her boss to stay put, she fled down the stairway and into the lobby of an adjacent building where she was photographed by Stan Honda. Marcy Borders (R), survivor of the 11 September attack on the World Trade Center, sits with photographer Stan Honda (  , 08 March, 2002,: Photographer Stan Honda met and interviewed Ms Borders after the attacks© AFP Photographer Stan Honda met and interviewed Ms Borders after the attacksMr Honda, a professional photographer, recalled the moment in a post on Facebook on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. "A woman came in completely covered in grey dust. You could tell she was nicely dressed for work and for a second she stood in the lobby. I took one shot of her before the police officer started to direct people up a set of stairs, thinking it would be safer off the ground level." Ms Borders, who was from New Jersey, was not aware she had been photographed until her mother saw the image the following day and contacted Mr Honda. In the years after the attacks, as her picture became one of the most iconic images of the day, Ms Borders suffered from severe depression and drug addiction and lost custody of her two . "I didn't do a day's work in nearly 10 years and by 2011 I was a complete mess," she told The New York Post in the same year. "Every time I saw an aircraft, I panicked."   LOVE IS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL  |
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Sapnaji. yes. may her soul RIP. LOVE IS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL
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Thanks for sharing this vitally interesting piece SUNNYBUNNY. LOVE IS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL
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