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All In The Family

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The author pursued aviation independently, even keeping her pilot status a secret from her family for eight years due to their lack of interest in flying.
  • The "miracle" of the story unfolds when her previously reluctant mother, inspired by the author's aviation writing, expresses a desire to experience flying herself.
  • Taking her parents for flights became a profoundly moving experience, creating a new shared understanding and appreciation for the world from the sky.
  • These flights strengthened the bond between the author and her parents, offering a cherished gift of shared perspective and connection that she never expected.
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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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