Tribune-Star/Joseph C. Garza
Alligator adventurer: When he told his family he planned a canoe trip through Florida's Myakka River State Park in 2008, Don Rogers, an associate professor of recreation therapy at Indiana State University, was warned by his daughter, Laura (in back next to brother, Jonathan) then 10 years old, now 11, that the alligators in the lake were "really big and dangerous."

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