Magnificent Mary
Mary lived with her family in the state of Mizoram. She was very poor and struggled to put food on the table. Mary helped her parents work in the fields, cutting woods, making charcoal and fishing. On the other hand, she spent a good time looking after her two younger sisters and a brother.
Mary wanted to help her family live a better life, so she decided to become a boxer. One day, she walked up to the coach in a boxing gym. ‘Will you train me?’ she asked. ‘You’re too tiny,’ he said. ‘Go away.’
But when the coach finished for the day, he found her still waiting for him at the gate. ‘I want to do this. Put me in the ring,’ she said to him. Reluctantly, he took her on and she started training hard. Mary was a quick learner who preferred to be put through the same training as the boys around her. ‘In just two weeks, I had learnt all the basics. I guess I had a God-given talent for boxing.’
She started competing, and won many fights. But she hadn’t told her parents. She didn’t want to worry them. One day, her father read about her in a newspaper. ‘Is this you?’ he asked, worried. ‘Yes,’ said Mary, proudly. ‘What if you get hurt?’ her mother asked. ‘We don’t have the money for doctors!’ ‘I will work hard, and save as much as I can. Don’t worry.’ Mary replied. She slept in hostels, ate vegetables and rice because she could not afford meat or eggs, skipped breakfast because she only had money for lunch and dinner, and finally she became a champion. Her parents watched her fights on television.
Mary won medal after medal. She even won a medal at the Olympics! She was able to provide everything for her family, just like she had dreamed when she was a child.
Today the five-time world champion is busy playing mother to her three sons and also running the Boxing Academy along with her supportive husband, Onler Kom.
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