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A Brush With Death Propelled A 9-Year-Old To A Muhammad Ali Award

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Shadrack Frimpong accepts his Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in Louisville on September 12.

As a poor, sick village boy in Ghana, Shadrack Frimpong remembers "praying and saying if I can keep these legs, then I will use them and work to help other people." And that's exactly what he did.

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