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Oprah Winfrey once said, “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”(“Oprah Winfrey Quotes”). Shawn and Rudy both had to overcome obstacles to reach their goals of college and football. Shawn Grin was a football player who grew up in the appalachia area and struggled with money. Rudy Ruettiger was a football player who grew up in Joliet, Illinois and who also struggles with money. Rudy and Shawn both have issues with their personal lives and both have to overcome different obstacles to reach their dreams.
Shawn and Rudy are similar in many reasons, one of them being they both had a tough background but had different problems they had to overcome. Shawn’s family would often steal from each other and his stepdad

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