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(gentle music)

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- There's something about the bigness,

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that presence of a horse.

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If it wasn't for her, I
would have taken my life.

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I got Cecilia after being a year sober,

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and I just spent so much time with her,

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that she really healed me.

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I wanted the farm to help other people.

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- You have these memories of

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all these events that stay with you.

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And you just don't know
how to get rid of them.

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They just build up, and
they kind of fester.

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It's just something
that you can't do alone.

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(soft music)

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- The horse has taught me really

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how to love and to feel.

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And I think that's what
it's taught other veterans.

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- [Roger] It's another living creature.

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You basically become one, and
you have to function together.

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You just give the commands to a horse,

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and the horse will do
what you ask it to do.

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(soft music)

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- [Lois] We have had veterans
as old as 96 years old,

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and as young as 22 years
old come to the farm.

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And they could do everything from

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walk a little mini anywhere
around the property,

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to work with a horse in the
round pen by grooming them.

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Some of them just sit
quietly in the pasture.

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The veterans choose their own horse.

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And they just gravitate to that horse,

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and you'll hear a veteran say,

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so how's my Eli doing?

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Or, how's my Loreal doing,

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or how's Maury the mule?

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I call her my sobriety sister.

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I was able to just provide her a new life,

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and she provided me a
new life, a new journey.