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CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Running unneurotic for each 26.2 miles, Greg Haroutunian and his girl Ani crossed the decorativeness enactment of a contention they've waited years to run.
"As a kid, I was similar I'm going to tally the Boston Marathon. To really get to bash it and for it to beryllium my archetypal 1 - it's conscionable unbelievable," Ani said.
Their past travel to Boylston Street was successful 2013.
A stark opposition from the nightmare the household endured during their past travel to Boylston Street.
On April 15, 2013, the Haroutunians were watching the contention crossed the thoroughfare from the 2nd blast successful the Boston Bombing that killed 3 radical and injured much than 200.
"I mean it was awful, aft that time I was acrophobic of everything, perpetually worried, perpetually panicking, I'd person breakdowns and cry. It was hard to spot if I'd ever get past that," Ani said.
"What was staggering was the fig of radical who ran toward wherever the weaponry ignited," Greg said.
Greg's oldest son, Mark, was eleven years old.
"That's wherever helium had a heavy consciousness of condemnation that helium wanted to marque definite that thing similar this would ever hap again successful our country," helium said.
Mark would articulation the army, and aft graduating from West Point, is present serving arsenic a lieutenant overseas.
After Ani's graduation from Fresno State, she and her dada decided this was the twelvemonth to tally the Boston Marathon, picking "Homes for our Troops" arsenic their charity.
Their radical raised much than $130,000 for the non-profit that purchases and remodels homes for veterans who person been severely injured.
When it came clip for the trip, Ani got to Boston 2 days aboriginal truthful that she could sojourn the memorial and constitute their wherefore connected the partition of runners:
"I said turning trauma into triumph: Running the Boston Marathon arsenic a Boston Bombing Survivor. And I enactment Genesis 50 verse 20 connected there," Ani said.
Greg, the elder pastor astatine a Fresno church, leaned connected his religion to assistance with the healing.
"It was redemption due to the fact that we were impacted by the evil of 12 years ago, not anyplace adjacent to the radical who were injured, but we, we were impacted. And we were back," Greg said.
An estimated 500,000 radical cheered on the way of the Boston Marathon. A fig that includes the Haroutunian family, who were lasting successful the nonstop spot they were successful 12 years prior.
"Right arsenic we were getting up there, I was similar 'alright dad, this is the spot, this is it!'," Ani said. "To get to spot our household determination cheering for us, I started crying. I didn't cognize you tin outcry and tally astatine the aforesaid clip but it's possible!"
For 12 years, the Haroutunian household lived with a time they wanted to forget.
With this instrumentality to Boylston Street, the household tin yet observe Boston successful a caller way.
"What much could you inquire for? You're crossing the decorativeness enactment and there's a caller story, there's a caller representation there. The representation determination is nary longer the trauma. The caller representation is of them cheering and america crossing," Ani said.
"Together, daddy and daughter, we were moving down Boylston and... Yeah I don't deliberation it gets overmuch better," Greg said.
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