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The “Amigo brothers” is a story about two friends that both love boxing but,there comes a point whenever they have to fight each other.There is a possibility that it could ruin their friendship. They are fighting for the chance to go to the Golden Gloves in New York City. At the end of the story the boys are fighting and they are not going easy on each other they are taking it as if they weren’t even friends.But whenever the fight is over and the ref goes to announce the winner neither one of the two friends are on the stage they had left together. The author states that “both boys are champions.”That is what happens at the end of the

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