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" I&amp;#039;m not usually one for scream-it-from-the-rooftop patriotism, and I&amp;#039;m most definitely not a runner, but I spent most of yesterday alternating between tracking friends on the Boston Marathon course and reading about the event. (To my bosses: Sorry about that highly-unproductive day.) In the year after the bombings, it felt particularly appropriate that an American, 39-year-old Meb Keflezighi in 2:08:37, became the first man to win Boston since 1983. But that was only the start of the inspiring stories that moved me to tears. Get those tissues ready. This runner&amp;#039;s legs gave out at the 26-mile mark, at which point five others stopped to carry him the last .2 miles.    The crowd exploded into loudest cheer I&amp;#039;ve heard today. Walking, then jogging, they all, all 5, finished the race pic.twitter.com/HE4QJnh35L \u2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) April 21, 2014    Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky each lost a leg in last year&amp;#039;s bombing. Yesterday, they rolled across the finish line holding hands.    Greg Picklesimer ran in 2:42 at age 47, then somehow found the energy to propose to his girlfriend at the finish line. &amp;quot;After last year I realized the people you love and your life can be taken so quickly,&amp;quot; he told CBS Boston. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t want to lose that so I decided to come back and seal the deal.&amp;quot;    Finish line proposal! She said yes! #wbz #bostonmarathon pic.twitter.com/ZF6BnxtPCE \u2014 Paula Ebben (@PaulaEbbenWBZ) April 21, 2014    And after over seven hours on the course, father-son duo Rick and Dick Hoyt finished their 32nd and last Boston marathon, surrounded by 20 members of Team Hoyt. Rick, now 52, was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, and after dad Dick pushed him in his first 5K, he said, &amp;quot;When I&amp;#039;m running, I don&amp;#039;t feel handicapped.&amp;quot; Since then, they&amp;#039;ve logged more than 1,000 road races, marathons, and triathlons.    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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