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Hate and love in the boxing ring

By Philip Martin

My father was, among other things, a boxer. I never saw him fight, because when he married my mother he promised to give it up. It wasn’t until he was in the hospital, dying of lymphatic cancer, that he told us he’d broken that promise once—that while on an Air Force temporary duty assignment to Kansas City, he’d used an alias and filled in on an undercard. He lost his ...

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  • Headline: Hate and love in the boxing ring
  • Publication: Perspective, Pages 70 on 01/22/2012
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