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I remember sitting on my dad’s shoulders and going to say hi to the horses in the pasture by our apartment. I was around 3 years old and I would demand we go with sugar! I was hooked and horse obsessed ever since!😀
I was born this way, as the song goes!
I just remembered feeling like I was on top of the world on a big dark bay, and falling in love with the sweet smell of herbivorious horsey breath🐴