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All In The Family

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The author, a pilot and aviation writer, considered taking her mother flying a "miracle" because aviation was entirely outside her family's background and her parents were unaware of her piloting for eight years.
  • Despite her mother's long-standing reluctance, she unexpectedly expressed a desire to fly, wanting to experience the beautiful perspectives her daughter wrote about.
  • These flights became a profound shared experience, allowing the author to connect with her parents by showing them the world from the sky, a deeply cherished gift she never thought she'd be able to give or receive.
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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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