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Marathons help a father and disabled son forge bond
Posted: 04.11.2013 at 7:50 AM
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Rick Hoyt's personal caregiver Lori Templeman, left, helps him put on gloves at his home in Holland, Mass. Hoyt's father Dick has pushed Rick, who is a quadriplegic and has cerebral palsy, in a specially-designed wheelchair along the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon route for more than 30 years.  / AP photo
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Rick Hoyt has run, biked and swum with his father in 1,092 races — including 252 triathlons, 70 marathons and 95 half-marathons — over the past 34 years, including a wartime race in El Salvador in which they had to be escorted by armed men.

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