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James Robert Kennedy also known as Radio is a twenty-tree year old man living with intellectual disabilities. He pushes around a shopping cart along the streets. He is interested by a high school football team, but after the team coach also known as coach jones takes pity on him for his disabilities and his great spirit, he asks him to help the team after the day the team member’s duct aped him and locked him in a storage shed. The coach confronts them, and takes radio home where he meets his mother. She tells him that radio’s father passed away a few years back. Coach Jones begins spending a lot of time with Radio which concerns a lot of fathers of the team members. The team captains father Frank Clay said that Coach Jones should not let Radio get in the way of the other team mates so he should stop associating with him altogether. He thinks that Radio is a distraction to his son succeeding in football. The coach blew that off and still kept Radio around for the fact that in his childhood there was a boy locked under a house that had the same condition as Radio and there coach did nothing to help his guilt is why he was helping Radio and letting him stick around. Radio soon starts going to the school as a student, it was shown in his work that he had never had formal schooling. After struggling for a very long time he finally learns to read. While, at school Radio gets bullied almost every day by Johnny the head football star and son of frank as well as a few other boys from the team. They tricked him into going into the girls’ locker room. Although they did that Radio refused to tell the administrator who told him to do it Johnny and most of the guys on the football team gain a lot of respect for him. Then Radio was walking around town with Christmas presents he got from other people he was handing them out to other people in town instead of keeping them for himself. He accidentally got arrested. The police officer thought he stole of the stuff

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