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The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Flight
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