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From a Hoppity Horse in suburbs to living cowboy dream.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 06-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From a Hoppity Horse in suburbs to living cowboy dream.(News)

Article Excerpt
If childhood dreams always came true, the suburbs would be packed with professional athletes, marine biologists, firefighters, rock stars, paleontologists and prima ballerinas.

As a little girl in Glen Ellyn in the late 1960s, Bambi Fritz had a slightly different dream.

"I wanted to marry the Marlboro Man," says Bambi, whose family is old friends with mine. "I was attracted to that cowboy type the Stetson hat, the spurs, the horses."

She even had a horse, the wildly popular Hoppity Horse an inflatable rubber ball with a horses head and handles.

"I hopped around the house or the neighborhood or whatever," Bambi remembers. "I had a vest with a...



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