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Girl with cerebral palsy now running bases
Photo credit: Alexi Knock
Jessica Realmuto first met Amanda Dunn in 2004 when she volunteered as Dunn’s buddy on the Massapequa Challenger baseball team. Dunn, then 5, just wanted to play baseball like the rest of the kids her age. Realmuto helped by pushing the wheelchair of Dunn, who has cerebral palsy, around the bases.
On Sunday, it was a different scene.
Dunn, now 12 and no longer in a wheelchair, ran alongside...
