“There’s a classic moment, two days before launch, where you have your final visit with your family,” Sullivan recalled. “I took my brother aside, and flat out told him, ‘Look, I know the day after tomorrow, I’m getting on top of a bomb. And wanting my friends to light it. I get that, I’m riding a bomb.’ ” But Sullivan knew exactly what she was doing. “If something goes really horribly ugly, wrong, don’t be tearing yourself up that I didn’t know,” she told her brother. “I knew. I knew and I’m here. Because I believe in the purpose, I believe the value of what we’re doing here to the country,
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