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The first river Ellen Falterman paddled was the Amazon, upriver in a 400 lb dugout canoe for a few weeks with her brother. But that is not the story here. The story here is that her second river trip was a run down the Missouri River from Montana to St Louis, and then her third river to paddle was the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. And she kept going, along the coastal islands and then via the Intra Coastal Waterway to Texas, to her home and her family. She accomplished this all by the age of 25. Ellen was peeling back life. She comes from a family of pilots. Her older brother, a pilot, crashed his plane into the river and did not survive. This is the story of a human digging in on her own humanity. Anointing herself with her grief and finding strength there. Ellen is a river boater, a pilot, a flight instructor and is preparing to row around the world across the oceans.
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