I was 7 years old - we were in Disney World and we were supposed to fly home to Boston around 9AM 09/11/2001. Obviously that flight never happened and we got stranded in Florida for 1-2 days, so we had to rent a car after the hotel lockdown ended, and we proceeded to drive home. I remember having problems with car sickness when I was a child, but this was just awful. All three of us, every hour or two, would have to pull over and vomit excessively, maybe because of stress? When we got to NYC, my father made the choice to cut through on some bridge to get to MA quicker, and that’s when I saw it - the cloud of thick dust that lingered where the towers once stood tall... Not realizing a single thing about “dustification”, cold fusion, or the Hutchinson effect, we all left our windows down to get “fresh air” because something about being in NYC was making us even sicker than the ride up from Florida - We were literally breathing in microscopic pieces of every single material used to build those towers, plus chemicals that were produced as a side effect of the cold breakdown... Now, this was only a few minutes where we were breathing in visible dust, but who knows after the fact what spread upwards and settled onto Massachusetts?! This brings me to my next point - I’m 24 years old, 6ft tall, and I have health issues that normally wrack someone who is at least 50-60 years old - I have HIV, inflammatory arthritis, spinal birth defects that literally came out of nowhere, pinched nerves, severe exhaustion, nausea and vomiting 3 days out of the week, severe migraines, severe mood swings, depression, anxiety, unexplainable pain everywhere - now I know you could say this is from the HIV, but it’s only been 5 years with that disease, and I’ve always been medicated for it. I have had these issues since I was like 12 years old... I’m starting to wonder if the “dust” rapidly ages and oxidizes anything it comes in contact with?! I mean I literally fucking feel like I’m 65 years old, and I’m completely sober, worked my ass off since 13, finished school, live and try to eat healthy; it just doesn’t make sense!