Parkinson's Causes His Body To Freeze Up. Only One Thing Gets Him Moving Again.

Boxing is a brutal sport. But brutality is needed when you’re facing an incurable disease.
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I’m on the heavy bag, throwing left jabs, ignoring the relentless blare of Kanye’s “Drive Slow, Homie” played at a volume that would raise the dead. I punch to a one-two count: left jab, right cross. I’m working as hard as I’ve ever worked, and even in this unheated gym I sweat as if it’s a sauna.

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