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Harry Swimmer / Heroes dot com #1177580

CNN Evening News for Saturday, Aug 20, 2016
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This week's CNN Hero is using his love of horses for healing. Harry Swimmer was set to retire when he met a girl with cerebral palsy and she inspired him so much he decided to transform his horse farm into a horse therapy camp for special needs children. Horses are very special animals. People just don't realize it. You say now walk on. Hero. We had a child on a horse who had a seizure and that horse stopped dead in his tracks when nobody else noticed it the horse caught it first. You can watch ...
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