“It was a complete and intense experience. “Suddenly I felt the real sensation of going up - a great lift, like a bird, like one’s dreams of flying - we soared in layers,” she wrote in her diary. Morrow reportedly was smitten and the pilot soon took her flying on their first date. Lindbergh was staying with Morrow’s family in preparation for a flight across Latin America when the 21-year-old graduate of Smith College first laid eyes on him. Morrow first met Lindbergh in 1927 in Mexico, where her father was the United States Ambassador. Bettmann/Getty Images Anne Morrow Lindbergh was known for her marriage and her tragedy, but she was a remarkable woman in her own right.īorn in 1906, a young Anne Morrow declared as a teenager that her goal in life was “to marry a hero.” From the outside, it must have looked like she got her wish when she married Charles Lindbergh, the world-famous aviator known for being the first to fly across the Atlantic.
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