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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.

Abby Sunderland

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
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
I’m one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
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Boat Broke Broken Cape Drifting Horn Ocean
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
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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Faith God Mile Resilient Twelve
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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Brain Close Dying Fact Slowly
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, “Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right.”
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Marine Number Ocean Plate Right Weathered
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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Fall Ripped Sea Terror
But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
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Blue Boat Little Look Version Wall Watery
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
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
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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Astonished Crazy Fear Joy Surging Two
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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Definition Sea World
It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too.
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Amazing Dream Got Make Support Together World
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
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Again Change Trying Waiting World
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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heavy Inescapable Physic Sea

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