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34. Really? flying, being a pilot is a lot of fun. You want to deny the pleasure because he can afford

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 12:42 AM

Mar 2015

to hire someone? Some of us like to fly, like to pilot small planes (or larger) because we like to. Being in the sky, looking up down all around, like a noisy smelly metal bird, being free to move in 3 dimensions is wonderful.

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