Courage
The man who helped save 669 children
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Terry Fox and the run he couldn't finish
Terry Fox never reached the Pacific.
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The people he inspired kept going.
After losing a leg to cancer, he began running across Canada to fund research. Cancer forced him to stop after 143 days, but his Marathon of Hope became a cause that communities would carry forward long after his death.
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