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2021-06-27 00:15:07I am sure I’ve mentioned before how much I hate flying on planes. It’s sort of ironic that I don’t mind flying as a bird. At least this time I’d had some opportunities to get used to it, and also my whole pack was there with me to help me to stay calm.
Not my whole pack, I guess. Mel wasn’t with us. But everyone else was. I was sitting in first class beside Sam. Ben wasn’t even where I could see him. I remembered what it had been like to fly to Paris for the first time. He’d done so much to keep me calm. This time, Sam was trying to make me laugh. Sam is usually hilarious, but I was still a little unnerved, so I only laughed at about half of them.
“Don’t worry, Harlow. If we fall out of the sky, you’ll catch us,” Sam said, trying to pry my fingers off of the armrest after we had been in the air f
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