The heroes of the evolution are people, like Lucy and so many others who have dedicated their lives to this cause.

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"Recovery high, the real gift that it gives to the kids is the soft landing when they come out of rehab or a longer-term facility like Lucy was in, " said Tony Gross, Lucy's father.

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"Everybody is fearful, and everybody is falling like soldiers around me, " Lucy Aikman says.

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Lucy Liu, flinging her black hair around like a weapon, is the most imperious and beautiful of the three.

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One participant, Lucy Connolly, says being involved is "like a life changer".

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When you're tense, you get a rush of brain chemicals, like norepinephrine and cortisol, that cause you to hyperfocus "like a deer in the headlights, " says psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino.

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Growing up in the town of Busto Arsizio, about 40 minutes' drive northwest of Milan, he first discovered modern art at 13, when he happened on a book, Pop Art, by critic Lucy Lippard and discovered the work of artists like Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist.

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