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“As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's adventurous spirit. Everyone she encountered might be a distant cousin. She felt that her people were everywhere, and because of that she couldn't fully be a stranger.”

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Book:The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
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“Living on is the memory of a horse who was hitched to a plow but wanted to soar. Snowman and Harry showed the world how extraordinary the most ordinary among us can be. Never give up, even when the obstacles seem sky high. There is something extraordinary in all of us.”

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Book:The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
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“The men of the 2nd cavalry had grown so close that some felt like members of his own family—none more so than the faithful young man who had saved his life three times, Jim O’leary. On the day of O'leary's departure, Hank wrote a letter to the young man’s mother back in Chicago. In it, he said, 'I have no sons. If I had one, I could wish nothing more but that he be a son as fine as yours.”

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Book:The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
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