Abby Sunderland - Would you have let her try?

Abby Sunderland - Would you have let her try?
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Probably not; but I can undestand why parents of a kid who had that kind of drive and ambitions would let her try. My son roade a motorbike across the country last summer; I was nervous about it but since he was 26 there was nothing I really could say.
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