When Dreams Take Flight

A brave group of strangers taught her to fly into—and through—her fears.

by: Nancy Perry Graham, from: AARP The Magazine, July/August 2010 issue

I once took an American Airlines fear-of-flying class for a "Fortune" story I was writing on executives who are afraid to fly. (I personally don't have a fear of flying—but, rather, of crashing.) It was a scene out of "The Bob Newhart Show": envision 24 of us, crammed into the Holiday Inn in Newark for two days, sharing our neurotic fears. … Back to Article

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