LEONARD — Sarah Gilder had a surprise for her 16-year-old son Keagen, but she didn’t want to tell him until the last minute.

“When you tell him something, he usually just fixates on it and talks and talks and talks,” Gilder said lightheartedly.

On Friday, Oct. 17, Gilder loaded up the car at their southern Minnesota home in Stillwater and handed Keagen a note — congratulating him on going on his first deer hunt.

As expected, Keagen was elated.

“The face that he made when he read that and looked at me, he said, ‘We're going deer hunting?! I really get to do this?’ And I said, ‘Yep.’ And so he just was ecstatic,” Gilder recounted.

Going deer hunting was a dream of Keagen's, who has hemiplegic cerebral palsy, but he had never gotten the opportunity.

“He has an aunt that's a pretty avid

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