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A doctor once sat his mother down and told her that her son would never walk, never have children, and would likely spend the rest of his life little better than a vegetable.

He has five kids now.

At two years old, Little Eddie Spaghetti nearly died from purpura fulminans, a rare blood disease that took both of his legs. What followed wasn't a slow recovery story — it was a kid figuring out, one stubborn decision at a time, that a body without legs was still a body that could do pretty much anything he decided to point it at.

He learned to walk on artificial legs, then figured out his own two hands were faster and never looked back. He rode a skateboard on his hands across town, held onto the backs of moving cars, and dominated a game called King of the Monkey Bars that he made up the rules to and never lost. He played catcher and second base in Little League, flag football in junior high, and walked into his first wrestling practice as a nervous freshman nobody expected much from — and walked out of that first varsity season with a record of 33 wins and 10 losses.

Told in his own voice — funny, direct, and completely unsentimental about what it actually took — Fighting Heart is the story of a small-town California kid who turned "you'll never" into a life nobody could have predicted, one adaptation at a time. It's about a mother who refused to let a diagnosis write her son's story for him. It's about a town that showed up. And it's about what happens afterward, when that kid grows up, has five kids of his own, and spends his weekends teaching the next generation of nervous first-day wrestlers everything he had to learn the hard way.

This is a book for anyone who's ever been told what they can't do — and for anyone who coaches, parents, or loves somebody who has.

Número de páginas :78
Isbn 13 :9798172463563
Encadernação Fighting Heart: How I Learned to Adapt, Compete, and Win Without Legs:Capa Comum
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