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Featured Training Photo
Raymond Adams
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Featured Training Photo

Photo by Raymond Adams | D-30158

Fashion model Gracen Taylor-Marie Kerr makes her first skydive with instructor David Fulk at CarolinaFest at Skydive Carolina in South Carolina. (Weird coincidence alert: The instructor, student and photographer on this jump all share the same birthday—December 11.)

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