The Light of Hidden Flowers by Handford Jennifer

Author:Handford, Jennifer [Handford, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2015-11-10T08:00:00+00:00

With Lucas appeased, I went about my next bit of business. With the same exhaustive research methods I used to pick stocks, I selected a counselor whose niche was my greatest phobia: the fear of flying. Her name was Susan McGillis, which reminded me of Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, with Maverick and Goose, and the MiG. (So you’re the one, Charlie said to Maverick.) I took the accident of her surname as a good sign. And she really was a top gun: in another life, she’d been a naval fighter pilot, had flown F/A-18 Super Hornet jets over Baghdad, logged twenty missions in Desert Storm.

We met at Starbucks. “I understand the workings of airplanes better than most,” she explained, as we sipped lattes and picked at scones. “And I get the worry, the anxiety. For me, it wasn’t the fear of flying. It was the anxiety of where I was flying. Fear’s fear.”

I told her about my last encounter on an airplane. The near panic attack that left me at the airport while my suitcases flew to Italy.

“You know,” she said, “the body doesn’t know the difference between excitement and fear. They register the same.”

“I haven’t had much experience with either,” I confessed.

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