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A car accident took his leg but former UC Bearcat Isaiah Pead's smile remains

This November, it will have been seven years since Isaiah Pead nearly left this world and his week-old son without a father.

Now 33, the former Cincinnati Bearcat great walks with a prosthetic left leg after a car accident that might have been fatal required amputation of the precious limb. He lost one of his natural gifts early that morning but has learned to enjoy the present and make the most of the hand he was dealt.

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