Dreamland

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First and foremost, to my lovely wife, Francesca, who suffered reading through many of the revisions. A special thanks to ’Nette, who should be an editor, not just an avid and informed reader. My close family, Loren, Gina, Lisa and Jenny, who enjoyed the storyline and plot but were a little mystified with all the technology. All my friends who read various draft versions and provided encouragement for me to send it for publication review and consideration. Lastly, a very special thanks to the Editors and Production Crew at Olympia Publishing for taking a leap of faith in a new author.

Trans-Commercial TC761 had started its descent from thirty-six thousand feet on a routine flight from Denver, Colorado, to Las Vegas in Nevada. Captain Angela Rothman flipped the autopilot of the Boeing 737-700 twin-jet narrow body aeroplane to manual flight mode and made her announcement to the one hundred and thirty-eight passengers on board. They were precisely on schedule and twenty minutes to landing. Local time in Vegas, two forty-five p.m., clear sunny skies, and temperature, a warm ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit. She hoped they had a pleasant flight and would choose Trans-Commercial again in future.

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