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I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

Abby Sunderland

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
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
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
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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Capability Human Sea Solo Unassisted Youngest
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
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
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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heavy Inescapable Physic Sea
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
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
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
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Harder Panic Seriousness Soda Time Trying
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
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 knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn’t likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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Able Helping Place Remote
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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CIrcumnavigated Globe People Solo Space Successfully
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

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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