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“I came of age when the jet age came of age,” says Ann Hood, an American novelist and New York Times best-selling author, whose book “Fly Girl” is a memoir of her adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant, right at the end of the Golden Age of air travel.
As a child, growing up in Virginia, she witnessed the first flight of the Boeing 707 – which ushered in the era of passenger jet travel – and watched Dulles airport being built.
At the age of 11,…