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Other flying exhibition companies, learning of my release from my Curtiss contract, kept at me via phone and mail to fly for them. I was torn into a couple of palpitating hunks.  One hunk would ask the other, "Why did you ground yourself?"  The other would answer, "Don't be stupidly bitter.  You did what your emotions told you was the right thing at the right time.  So it is a little thin now. Sit loose and don't worry it.  A solution will occur that will be satisfactory for all concerned.  Each offer to fly was like a hot needed shoved into [[strikethrough]] responsive [[/strikethrough]] quivering flesh.  There was an inescapable thrill and exhilaration in flying and being in the air.  The attitudes and comararadie of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] other flyers stirred in my feelings that I cannot truly describe but hope that others can imagine and share. My longing to be back in the air grew daily. I concluded that life in Dayton was Dullsville.  It was an unmitigated bore that intensified daily.  This, naturally had an emotional reaction that widened the gulf between my husband and me until the point of no return was reached and passed.  We, being intelligent and understanding adults, reached an amiable agreement.  We separated. I went to Long Island, N.Y. in May of 1911. At Mineolo Field I started flying again under contract to dear old 'uncle' Thomas Baldwin.

Captain Baldwin, the 'Captain' was a courtesy title, was an out-of-the-book person. He was a ballonist and held a license for balloon navigation (No one ever determined whether a license was essential for that particular thing but he had one and was proud as Punch of it).  He moved next to dirigibles. These balloons with motors were, at one time, projected as the ships of the future. Much feature space in newspapers and magazines were devoted to dirigibles.  They were the forerunners of the 'jet set!  Estatic writers drooled out reams of copy about these floating luxury motels of the future.  After a few disasters the dirigible moved down in the 

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