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Survival.

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"A horse on a photo
shoot in California

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was frightened by
the sound of surf,

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so he ran straight
into the ocean.

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He ran two miles on a
road that didn't exist,

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and for an afternoon,
he was holy.

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A god small enough to face
the surface of the world,

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to pit lung and
innocence and muscle

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against its terrible curve.

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In the hands of his rescuers,
the horse was still swimming.

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The ocean looked like
something gentle.

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He threw his head up, breathing,
and the men laughed and called

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for a counterweight.

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His front legs started up
again, two miles out to sea, so

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much death and space,
a sunset ahead of them

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all, and they got
the harness on."