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“Not many kids can say they got in a fight with a bear and came out on top,” says Arizona woman Carol Edington Hawkins, whose 15-year-old son survived an attack last week. In a Facebook post, Hawkins shared photos of her injured son, Brigham, the Arizona Republic reports. She tells NBC News that Brigham was watching YouTube in a cabin on her parents’ property in Alpine on Thursday evening when a black bear “walked in through the front door and swiped him across the head.” She says Parker, Brigham’s 18-year-old brother, heard Brigham’s screams and ran over from a second cabin to help. Hawkins s…