Eighty-three year-old Clara Hess of Vero Beach looks just like your grandmother. Until she puts on her boxing gloves. This gray-haired, soft-spoken senior citizen turns into “slugger” during a boxing class at the Alzheimer & Parkinson Association of Indian River County twice a month.

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