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(optimistic music)

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- Phoenix is fairly new to me,

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we've been working
together for two months.

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He's 15 months old, he was being trained

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for PTSD and traumatic
brain injury support.

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I started training him
for mobility assistance.

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I had no idea how much
he would impact my life

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and how much he would help me

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to kind of get out of my shell

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and well, get out of the house again

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and to become active.

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- I didn't want a service
animal, that's just another

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indicator there's
something wrong with you.

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And I really didn't have
a lot of confidence that

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a service animal would help me.

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Liberty is very rare.

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She does seizure detection,
so she can actually

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interrupt seizures before they happen.

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And if I do have a seizure, then she

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actually stays with me

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and she gets her head
up underneath my head.

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Pretty amazing, the longer I have her,

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the more I realize how
much I've needed her.

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- Hob helps me with a
lot of things, but one

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of the things that he does is
he gives me a mental outlet,

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so that when I'm having those
bad moments or episodes,

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I know that as the army
says, he's got my 6

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And you know, he's always been there.

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And that bond I would say is
as strong as with my spouse.

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(inspiring music)