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But when she flies, she takes nothing except her mystery book.

"You get in a car and go to the office," she says. "I get in a plane to go to my job. There is no difference."

"I take things back and forth," she says.

the agents will sometimes put her on a flight to Memphis. If the weather is bad in Atlanta and Memphis, the agents will usually give her a flight to Detroit.

And then she and Jim are off to Huntsville International Airport, where Porter, broker and owner of Ben Porter Real Estate, boards a Delta plane around 5.

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"All I need is a book," she says. "That's why (flying) is not a problem."

They know her so well that some of the agents do her favors every now and then.

One flight, then another, then the landing in Cleveland, Porter's final destination on Sunday nights since 1984.

Most Monday mornings, Porter, a clinical psychologist, arrives at Converse Children

The agents at the ticket counter know her. The security personnel know her.

Next week, though, she plans to drive to Lyndhurst, Ohio, a 101/2 hour trip.

By 5, she's headed back to Huntsville, where she tends to real estate for the rest of the week.

Sunday afternoon, when Ila Porter's son, Jim, drives up to her home in Cedarhurst.

Ila grabs a murder mystery book, usually something by Jack Higgins or Dick Francis, and nothing else.

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her apartment, about a five minute drive from her office.