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Barr turned cancer battle into new swimming career

By Mark Kreidler
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, December 1, 2008

He said, "Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying."       -- Tim McGraw, "Live Like You Were Dying." SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- No one would call it a blessing. It isn't a blessing. Mark Barr won't hand an honorific like that to a sinister thing like cancer, a crazy, incomprehensible thing, a thing that tries to kill its own host, that tried to take him down for a death roll when he was a 14-year-old kid, exacting one of Barr's legs as the ...

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