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Nancy DeSantis

veteran and a horse stand inside a round pen in a quiet ranch near Santa Fe. At first, they are unsure of how to approach each other. Then something amazing happens. “This is not a cowboy program,” says Nancy De Santis, co-founder of Heroes for Horses, a nonprofit that offers a skill-set restructuring program for

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