The Boy Who Gave Up the Race to Save His Rival

But Marcus learned quickly that attention came with a strange cost.

A local paper ran a story about him.

Then another.

Then a regional sports page.

The headline called him “The Runner Who Stopped.”

People at school suddenly wanted to talk.

Students who had laughed now said they had always known he was special.

Teachers smiled at him in the hallway.

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