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When medical concerns force early retirement from identity-defining athletics

My college recruited me to play football but after two concussions this season the team doctor says I should consider stopping and I have never thought about who I am without this sport.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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If you can't play the sport anymore, you don't know who you are.

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