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8-year-old special needs child competing to win custom bike needs your help

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8-year-old special needs child competing to win custom bike needs your help
FORNEY, Texas – An 8-year-old Forney girl is competing nationally for a custom bike and needs your help to win it. The bike isn't any ordinary bike and the girl isn't any ordinary girl.
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Emily Zummer, a Claybon Elementary student, is a very special girl to all those around her. Emily has autism spectrum disorder, severe ADHD, and other challenges, according to her mother, Felicia Zummer. “She's very sweet, everybody loves her,” said Zummer. “She never meets a stranger and she's a social butterfly.”

“We've tried for years to get Emily to ride a bike but she has been unable to get passed the hump,” said Zummer. The bike Emily is competing for is a custom bike specifically designed to allow a buddy to ride the bike with her. Unlike most tandem bikes, Emily will not have to peddle if she isn't able to or does not want to – the buddy can do all, or assist, the pedaling.

Because of Emily's severe ADHD, she doesn't have a favorite toy but she likes to go for rides in the family golf cart. Zummer is hoping the bike will be her next favorite ride which could help her learn to ride a bike and also help release an overabundance of energy.

Two bikes, worth approximately $1,300 each, are in the Michaela Noam Kaplan Great Bike Giveaway competition on firendshipcircle.org. Approximately 120 children are competing for the bike. The child with the most nominations wins the bike and then children qualified based on nominations will be entered into a raffle for the other bike.

If she wins, says Zummer, “she will be able to go outside and enjoy the world. This would be a blessing for our family.”

To vote for Emily, visit Emily's page directly on friendshipcircle.org. Voting will end on March 25, 2014, and the winners will be announced the next day.

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