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Report: Saints Drew Brees presents surprise gift to student athlete who lost leg to injury

Alex Ruiz of Temecula, Calif., suffered an injury in October that dislocated his knee and severed an artery, cutting off blood flow to his leg for 11 hours, according to a report by KABC-TV in San Diego. In February, his leg was amputated below the knee.

Last week, Ruiz learned a secret his parents had kept for two months: The Challenged Athletes Foundation had recruited Brees to present him with a walking prosthetic leg, to be replaced with a sports prosthetic leg in the future.

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