The heartbreaking story of 9/11 ‘Dust Lady’ Marcy Borders, who died 14 years after the terror attacks

There are photographs that document history, and then there are photographs that seem to become history. For Marcy Borders, one image taken on September 11, 2001, would follow her for the rest of her life. She was only 28 years old, a young mother working for Bank of America in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. When the first plane struck, she escaped the building and made it outside. Then the South Tower collapsed, sending an enormous cloud of pulverized debris through Lower Manhattan. Photographer Stan Honda captured her after she had taken…

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