"I don’t know what was going through my head, but I was in pain and I wanted to quit. But I could hear the finish line.” The unstoppable New York City firefighter, Ironman, triathlete, and entrepreneur was in the prime of his life, until one Christmas morning, when his life was changed forever.

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