Finding Courage in the Face of Death

The Plane Began to Pitch...

By Sigrid Nunez
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the April 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Author Sigrid Nunez confronts death on a turbulent plane.

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