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Speaker 3: It needs to get out to the football field today,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I met everything obviously, all the adversity I just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it happened to you.

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Speaker 3: Did you realize that you would be able to play

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Speaker 2: They told me in the hospital and when I was

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