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Fear of Flying
Onyema lived in a poor Nigerian village with her grandmother because her mother had to work in a neighboring village. When she was six, she saw a plane flying overhead for the first time, and was so awestruck that as she soon as she discovered what it was, she vowed to be a pilot. This seemed impossible to those around her.
Onyema refused to give in to the seeming impossibility of her vision. Her passion drove her to keep going and do well in school in addition to all the other work she had to do in the village. When she was the equivalent of a high school senior, she took a 12-hour bus ride to the capital and found an Internet café where she planned to apply to the University of Alabama for a place in its aerospace course. ...
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