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On a bitter cold morning in 1956, Harry deLeyer showed up late to a Pennsylvania horse auction. The best horses had already been sold. One animal was left behind—a thin, dirty gray gelding loaded onto a truck bound for slaughter. Harry looked into his calm eyes and asked to buy him. The price was $80. His young daughter named him Snowman because he was pale against the winter snow. At first he was just a gentle lesson horse. Harry eventually sold him for $160, but days later Snowman escaped his new home and walked back to Harry’s barn. Harry sold him again. Snowman came back again. Only then did Harry realize the unwanted workhorse could clear five-foot fences. He bought him back and began training him as a show jumper. Within two years, the former plow horse was competing at Madison Square Garden against elite horses bred for the sport—and winning. In 1958 and 1959, Snowman was named Horse of the Year, the first horse to win the title two years in a row. The world called him “The Cinderella Horse.” He appeared on The Tonight Show, in Life magazine, and became a national celebrity. In 1969, Snowman retired at Madison Square Garden. As he left the arena for the final time, the crowd stood and sang “Auld Lang Syne.” Snowman died peacefully in 1974 at the age of 26, with Harry beside him. He began life as a horse nobody wanted. But one man saw something others missed. Sometimes greatness doesn’t come with a pedigree. Sometimes it’s simply waiting for someone to believe. 🌹🐎

TrumpGirlLove's tweet photo. On a bitter cold morning in 1956, Harry deLeyer showed up late to a Pennsylvania horse auction. The best horses had already been sold. One animal was left behind—a thin, dirty gray gelding loaded onto a truck bound for slaughter. Harry looked into his calm eyes and asked to buy him. The price was $80.

His young daughter named him Snowman because he was pale against the winter snow. At first he was just a gentle lesson horse. Harry eventually sold him for $160, but days later Snowman escaped his new home and walked back to Harry’s barn. Harry sold him again. Snowman came back again.

Only then did Harry realize the unwanted workhorse could clear five-foot fences. He bought him back and began training him as a show jumper. Within two years, the former plow horse was competing at Madison Square Garden against elite horses bred for the sport—and winning.

In 1958 and 1959, Snowman was named Horse of the Year, the first horse to win the title two years in a row.

The world called him “The Cinderella Horse.” He appeared on The Tonight Show, in Life magazine, and became a national celebrity. In 1969, Snowman retired at Madison Square Garden. As he left the arena for the final time, the crowd stood and sang “Auld Lang Syne.”

Snowman died peacefully in 1974 at the age of 26, with Harry beside him. He began life as a horse nobody wanted. But one man saw something others missed. Sometimes greatness doesn’t come with a pedigree. Sometimes it’s simply waiting for someone to believe. 🌹🐎

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How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects? Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song. Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been. Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on. Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about. There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable. There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.” Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE?? And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself? Your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to? The iron in our blood was made inside a star?? We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live? We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

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