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\u201cI\u2019m sorry, honey, this isn\u2019t your game. Why don\u2019t you play with your toys, instead?\u201d Stroking his hair, Michael\u2019s mother ushered him\u00a0inside.<\/p>\n

While his six brothers made the school football team, Michael sat in the stands. He couldn\u2019t play because his parents thought him weak. As he sat, his eyes tearing, his ice cream melting, Julia sat beside him. \u201cWhy are you upset? If not football, try out for baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n

12 years later, Michael entered the pitch to thundering applause. He was no longer the outlier?\u2014?the child with the bionic leg had proved his parents?\u2014?and the world?\u2014?wrong.<\/p>\n

Republishing from my personal <\/em>blog<\/em><\/a>. If you enjoyed this, please appreciate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m sorry, honey, this isn\u2019t your game. Why don\u2019t you play with your toys, instead?\u201d Stroking his hair, Michael\u2019s mother ushered him\u00a0inside. While his six brothers made the school football team, Michael sat in the stands. He couldn\u2019t play because his parents thought him weak. As he sat, his eyes tearing, his ice cream melting,… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t