Inspiration is contagious. Dean’s flying partners and friendly strangers at the Horner Pub have given him ideas, he says, that will forever change his life.

“Something that has given more hope to this idea that I’m uncontrollably drawn to is that other people are seeing it,” Dean says. “They’re seeing that I’m not falling like others, and it looks like I could land it. And when I hear others say that, it reinforces what I believe.”

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