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While recovering with both legs in casts, Eric decorated
sugar cookies with his children. When he accidentally dropped a
gingerbread man cookie on the floor, both its legs broke off.
He picked up the cookie, stuck the legs back on,
and proceeded to decorate it. His artistic abilities oozed over
the cookie and when he was finished - no one could tell that the
cookie had ever been broken.
Eric wondered how many people were like the cookie:
they're broken inside but no one knows. He decided to do something
to help prevent people from becoming broken and started the Gingerbread
House Festival in November 1999.
Since that time the Festival has funded numerous
worthwhile programs, and continues to serve and protect Utah's children
today.
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