Eli Hopkins is accompanied by his parents, Carla Hopkins, left, and Victoria Eleftheriou, while taking a cruise Monday at a pond near their home in Mount Vernon. The couple purchased the boy a kayak for his seventh birthday on Tuesday and decided to make a splash a day early because of temperatures in the 80s. 


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