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Sky divers jump on LI to raise money to fight cancer

Quick ReadAll Bridget Doyle could do was smile as the wind carried her body across the field at Sky Dive Long Island Saturday.

Harnessed to a professional skydiver, Lindsay Doyle ,

Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Harnessed to a professional skydiver, Lindsay Doyle , front, comes in for a landing after leaping for charity on Saturday afternoon in Calverton. (Aug. 21, 2010)

All Bridget Doyle could do was smile as the wind carried her over the field at Skydive Long Island Saturday.

She was about to land after having jumped out of an airplane at 13,500 feet for a cause close to her heart.

"Any time someone says 'cancer,' I'm in," said Doyle, one of 75 who sky-dived at locations nationwide and in Canada this weekend to raise money for cancer research through...

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