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Eight years ago, Beck learned he had a fatal disease. Today, he said he refuses to let that diagnosis define him.

WINDER, Ga. — Beck Cammarata grew up loving soccer. It’s the sport he loved to play when he was 5 years old.

It was also the sport he was playing when he got his diagnosis. 

Beck’s mom, Brandi, said he started complaining about leg pain when he was about four and a half years old. When he was just 5, they took him to the doctor.

“She called me the next day and told me that he had a form of muscular dystrophy and not to Google it,” she remembered.

“It was awful. I couldn’t get out of bed, to be honest, for three months,” Brandi recalled.

Beck said it took him a few years to grasp what the diagnosis meant. But said once he did, he was determined …

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