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All In The Family

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The author, a pilot and aviation writer, pursued her passion for flying as a solo endeavor, with her family having no prior interest in aviation and her parents being unaware she was a pilot for eight years.
  • A significant "miracle" unfolded when her mother, who was previously thought to dislike airplanes, unexpectedly requested to go flying to better understand the world the author wrote about.
  • Sharing the experience of flight with her parents, particularly her mother, became a deeply profound and cherished gift for the author, allowing them to connect with her passion and create lasting memories together.
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||| |—|—| | | | A man approached me in the Flying tent at the EAA’s AirVenture airshow last summer and thanked me for, as he put it, “working a miracle in my life.” He explained that his wife, who in 20 years of marriage had never been willing to go flying with him, had finally agreed to go after reading some of my columns.

“That’s nothing,” I remember thinking as I listened to his tale. “You want to know a real miracle? I finally took my mother flying with me last week.”

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