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Camp provides 'different kind of healing' to kids with serious illnesses

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Since 1988, children with severe and life-threatening illnesses have been offered an emotional escape from their daunting daily routines with the chance to "just be kids" for a while at a camp nestled deep in the woods of Ashford, Conn.

It's called The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and it provides a "different kind of healing" to 20,000 children and their families by altering traditional camp programs so anyone with a physical or mental limitation can participate — and it's completely free of charge.

Each summer, roughly 1,000 campers from the ages of 7 to 15 descend on the Old West-themed site inspired by "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a film starring the camp's founder, Paul Newman.

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