The Day the Plane Would Not Fly

At the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1980, Evelyn Carter Spencer recalls first arriving at this camp eleven years earlier, still unsure she was loved. She tells of a flight home delayed for hours while her daughter faced a mastectomy for cancer, and of a voice at her kitchen sink weeks later urging her to give up. Both times, she says, she found she could not manufacture the fear or despair she expected to feel.

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