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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

Abby Sunderland

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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CIrcumnavigated Globe People Solo Space Successfully
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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Fall Ripped Sea Terror
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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Game Mental Ocean Past Physical
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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Building Stories Three
I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.
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Abilities Follow Great Parent Passion Trying
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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Alone Around Dad Day One Year
I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don’t come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip.
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Begun Believe Brother Dream More
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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Definition Sea World
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
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Feeling Home Indian Ocean Walking
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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heavy Inescapable Physic Sea
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
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Drowning Eight Twenty Water
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Adversity Crush Overcome Sailor
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don’t want to put them in a position to fail.
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Decision Kids People Position Protected Today
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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Build Eye Feet High Speed Wall Water
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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Birthday Eye Happening October Sixteenth
One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
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One Passage Place Point Turbulent

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