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Balloon Fiesta: A wish now granted [Video]

Inside the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum, you’ll find hundreds of visitors, all learning the history behind ballooning and its ties to Albuquerque.Of the visitors inside, are Sam and Joseph Jarvis. The father and son from Washington State are in town for the first time.”Sam’s wish, because of his love for balloons, was to come down to Albuquerque. We didn’t know anything really much about it, but we knew the balloon festival was here,” said Joseph.Sam is 23 and loves clocks, people and of course hot air balloons. His wish is being granted thanks to the Wishing Star Foundation. It’s a non-profit that began in 1983 and has granted more than 600 wishes to children who are battling life-threatening illnesses.”When he was born, he had pulmonary hypertension, and because of that, he was in the hospital very seriously, almost passed away when he was young. Because of that, he ended …

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