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Running for My Life by Lopez Lomong with Mark Tabb — WisdomDeck honest review

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Running for My Life

by Lopez Lomong with Mark Tabb

A Sudanese lost boy kidnapped at six, escaped to Kenya, adopted in America, and carried the US flag at the Beijing Olympics. Faith and survival.

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you want a true story that puts your problems in scale.

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you want running technique.

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Three things you will actually use

Keep running.
Gratitude after survival.
Give back.

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Read the escape chapters.

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Lomong's story.

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