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Fly Girl A Memoir

Ann Hood

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” ( In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world―and maybe, one day, write about it―Ann Hood joined thei...

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Small Town Murder

The book discussed a woman who was a flight attendant back in the 60s. The woman described the process she went through to become a flight attendant and said that most of the women were interested in finding a husband in first class.

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I think the book it's a book about a woman who was a flight attendant back then yeah and she went through all the process and she said all the girls back then were just talking about I want to get in...

— Episode: #480 - Wood Chipping The Wife - Newtown,...

Episode: #480 - Wood Chipping The Wife - Newtown, Connectic...

The book discussed a woman who was a flight attendant back in the 60s. The woman described the process she went through to become a flight attendant and said that most of the women were interested in finding a husband in first class.

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I think the book it's a book about a woman who was a flight attendant back then yeah and she went through all the process and she said all the girls back then were just talking about I want to get in first class like a meet a husband that's it oh that's in the 60s that's what women were a lot of these women who were being flight attendants some of them were you know interested in careers and stuff but they said like 90% of them were married and retired by 27 mm-hmm they would marry now I always cross my fingers to get bumped up to first class because that's where the nice flight attendant is that's where the one who grudgingly yeah they'll grudgingly yeah fuck that I use the card to get the miles I'm doing what I can because I want everything up front yeah they will be nice yeah be nice to you the people in the bag that lady cannot give a fuck about you there's so many of you she just throws handfuls of packaged fucking pretzels and nuts in there just handfuls you guys fight over it like we're a pack of monkeys

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