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FLIGHT PATH

All those who reached for the sky

ouldn’t you like to be able to fly? I would. I’d have to overcome the fear first, of course – not so much a fear of flying (that would be the fun part) as a fear of plummeting. But once I’d got the whole ‘aaarrrggghhh’ thing out of the way and had programmed my brain not to dissolve into quivering globules of terror at the thought of plunging to the ground in an

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