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Girl Saves Her A ten-year old girl is being called a hero after she saved her best friend’s life with the Heimlich manoeuvre.
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The two girls were hanging out at Amanda Thompson’s home when Jennifer decided to crack some jokes. It might have been a little too much for her best friend Amanda, who was eating a carrot. “We had just finished one of our assignments for school and I made her laugh with one of my jokes,” Jennifer says. Jennifer says that
when her friend started choking and gasping for air, she got behind her and used the lifesaving technique. “I was just so scared, and in the beginning I didn’t know what to do. Then I remembered something that I had seen on TV, so I tried the Heimlich manoeuvre on her.” The girl was honoured with an award for courage at her school and she
