Emily's mother, Andrea Halnon, was also afraid to jump out of a plane, but she "met her fear with joy and determination," her daughter says.
The door slid open, the plane was moving 100 miles per hour, and a torrent of wind rushed in.
On this big grief day, when I didn’t know how to cope with feeling too far away from my mom, I’d found the answer.
I carried every emotion with me as I let go of the plane — fear, joy, grief, longing, love.
My eyes were wide open, and I could see I was exactly where I wanted to be.
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