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FOREVER

This is the story of Joe awd
Fonzie. It’s a story about a

friendship that started wore
than 20 years ago. It’s also a story
about a friendship that saved

a life and started a new kind of
help for people with problems.

‘Joe’ is Joe Hoagland, who was three years Soon, Joe wanted to see Fonzie every day. He loved
old when the story began. And ‘Fonzie’ is playing with him and feeding him. Every time that Joe
a 3-metre-long, 275 kilogram dolphin. arrived, Fonzie came to see him. Joe’s mother told
When Joe was born, he had a problem with him always to feed Fonzie using his left hand, so Joe
his heart and doctors had to operate on him. used his left side more and more. Slowly, he got better
When he was three, he had another operation. and better. He’s now over 30 years old and very well.
This operation didn’t go well and he became Deena saw that Joe’s friendship with Fonzie helped
paralysed - he couldn’t move the left side of his him a lot, and she knew it was a good idea for other
body. The doctors at the hospital didn’t think he people, too. So, she and her family worked to open a
could get better. Deena, Joe’s mother, took him place called Island Dolphin Care. It’s next to Dolphin
to different places for therapy, but it wasn’t very Plus and many people with health problems
successful. Then the family moved to Florida. come to spend time with the dolphins.
Joe liked being in the water and Deena thought Sadly, Fonzie died in 2004 when Joe
swimming could help him. First, they went was 17. He wrote: ‘Fonzie was a great
to swimming pools in hotels, but some hotel friend to me; he and I shared a lot of
guests didn’t like them being there. Then one good times. He always put a smile
day she went with Joe to a place in Key Largo on my face.’
called Dolphin Plus, where people swam with
dolphins. Joe met Fonzie there and the story
really began.

TH!NK

Friendship

7 Tick ( / ) the boxes that are important for you in a friendship. 8 SPEAKING Put the values from Exercise 7
in order of importance for you. 1 = not
A good friend...
important / 6 = very important. Compare
I | helpsyou when you have a problem.
your order with a partner.
I | makes you laugh when you're sad.
□ never criticises you.
I | is honest with you all the time.
I | looks good.
I | has the same interests as you.