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Before competition, Abby Seng fixes heather Brescher's hair. 'We're judged on appearance, too,' says Seng.

late in the night during their annual overnight retreat, the girls talk about their goals for the upcoming competition season.

Annamarie Miller finds out practicing stunts can be painful. Three times in a row, a girl Annamarie is holding up during a stunt comes crashing down. Each time Annamarie gets an elbow in the eye.

Leslie Schwartz spills into the waiting arms of the bases and spotters on the first day of the teams practice on the routine they'll do at nationals.

practiced and tense varsity hopefuls wait their turn to cheer and tumble for six judges who will decide who makes varsity and who spends the year on the junior varsity squad.

Wall-to wall cheerleaders fill the Vincennes university gymnasium during summer camp, where the girls learned new stunts and polished their tumbling skills.

the days on the farm without Carl are lonely for Irvin. 'I don't like this,' he says. 'I just want him home soon. I might sell the cows. It's not worth keeping the cows anymore.'

Irvin visits Carl almost every day, sometimes twice a day, after each milking. He waits and looks for signs of improvement, the broken hip has affected not only Carl's mobility, but he also forgets things and sleeps most of the day.

When Carl breaks a hip on the farm, he spends over a week in the hospital in the nearby town of Huntingburg. He undergoes surgery to splint the broken bone. One day, while Irvin visits, an ambulance comes to take Carl to a nursing home in town. Irvin…

Most conversation topics have been covered in the seven decades the Kahle brothers have worked together. Sometimes after Irvin finishes the farm chores, they just sit and watch the farm. 'It's getting to the end. If I die, or he dies, I don't know…