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If you haven't seen Million Dollar Baby and plan to do so, stop reading. There is much to like about the film. As a father of athletic young women, I loved the physicality of the young female fighter's boxing scenes, though I live in dread of the sucker punch that can change everything. As someone who had to decide about withdrawing life support for my brother who was severely injured in a bicycling accident, I could identify with the agony felt by Clint Eastwood's trainer character as he contemplated the unthinkable — helping the now-quadriplegic former boxer to die. As . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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