"The Mile High Gliding facility at the Boulder Airport in Colorado is one of Carol Fiore's favorite haunts. And it's a perfect day for flying: clear, breezy and with a gorgeous view of the Rocky Mountains."

"Fiore used to fly gliders regularly, but a few years ago she stopped. Flying them had become painful."

"'I felt, in a way, that I was searching for something that wasn't there,' Fiore says. 'I was looking for that laughter and that incredible time that I had flying with Eric, and he wasn't in the plane with me. I was by myself.'"

"Eric was Fiore's husband for 20 years. After they married, he flew F-15s in the Air Force. Then the couple moved to Wichita, Kan., where he was a test pilot for the airplane manufacturer Bombardier."