When I was ten years old, my parents dressed me in a light blue suit, with a tie even, and handed me over to an airline stewardess who was also pristinely dressed in her own light blue leisure-type suit. A name tag was pinned to my chest, and I was led up the stairs onto a small prop plane at the Santa Barbara airport.
It was the first leg of my solo fli…
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