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In November, espnWs weekly essay series will focus on giving.I first heard of Chinese Olympic swimmer Fu Yuanhui when someone on Facebook posted an article about her with the caption: I want to be her best friend. I winced and moved on. For days, I did not click on the link, until I saw even more people posting about her -- always with the same words. Shes amazing. I love her. Too real.Oh, no, I thought. Oh no. I knew exactly where this was going. But I clicked anyway.When I was in elementary school, I was the only Asian in my grade. On the playground, my classmates pretended to be Chinese, saying things like ching-chong-chaw and doing kung-fu. At my desk, I seethed but could not explain why -- only that it came from some deep feeling that my classmates were pretending to be Chinese the way kids pretend to be aliens or superheroes.One afternoon, my classmates had gathered around me, fascinated by my eyes. Theyre different, one of them announced, and then they all stepped in closer. I wondered if I had became a caricature by being fully Asian and half-Chinese.When I grew older, the narrative changed. After college, I spent some time studying Chinese in China, in an attempt to understand my mothers culture. The majority of my male classmates had arrived on a different quest: They wanted a girlfriend.Chinese women are beautiful, one of my classmates told me. He handed me his phone. The contacts list was filled with the names of women hed met clubbing. The album was packed with photographs of him wrapped around each of the women hed met, their faces green and silver from the flashing lights of the clubs.I cant speak the language, I hate the food here and I miss my family, he told me as he swiped through each picture so quickly the faces blurred together, but Im not going home until I get a girlfriend.Theyre different from American women, my apartment mate explained when I asked him about the allure. Theyre more feminine and more submissive. Perfect wife material.Chinese women had evolved to mean sexy. I couldnt decide if that was better or worse. Really, it was just about the same as being a caricature, but now served with a side of submission and breasts.With all of that in mind, I read all the stories and watched interviews of Fu Yuanhui, expecting a celebrity swimmer who was polite and poster beautiful.The unexpected happened: I too fell in love. I, too, wanted Fu Yuanhui to be my best friend. She wasnt poster-pretty. She was something far better: She was human.When Fu Yuanhui heard shed come in third at the 100-meter backstroke finals at the Rio Olympics, she gasped for air, stuttered and then mangled her lanyard from the sheer joy of winning. Her bubbling, over-the-top delight with life was infectious. In the photographs, while other athletes posed for the camera, smiles frozen in place, she clutched her medal mouth open in a silent roar of happiness. She made faces, grinned maniacally.The moment I truly fell for her was during the womens 4x100-meter medley relay when she emerged from the pool doubled over in pain. Her period left her feeling weak, she told the reporter, and she didnt swim her best. Then, she apologized for her performance and moved on.Never mind the cultural taboo that exists around periods, particularly in China, where tampons are hard to come by. Never mind the cultural taboos about periods that exist around the world. Fu Yuanhui swam in pain; she felt like she underperformed; she apologized; and that was all simply all there was to it.Fu Yuanhui didnt give us pretty, she gave us joy so fierce you could feel its power blasting through the camera lens. She didnt give us pitch-perfect celebrity-speak molded to showcase her best self to the press. She gave us herself, her incandescent happiness, her earthly pain.She showed us its possible to be loved by the world for simply being yourself. 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Texas Rangers slugger Prince Fielder is facing the prospect of season-ending neck surgery after an MRI revealed a herniated disk just above an area that was repaired two years ago.Fielder and outfielder Shin-Soo Choo were placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday by the slumping AL West leaders, who had lost 12 of 16 games going into their game at the Los Angeles Angels.Choo got an injection to help relieve lower-back discomfort.General manager Jon Daniels said Fielder on Monday reported having similar symptoms to those he felt before the 2014 surgery that limited him to 42 games his first season with the Rangers. Fielder was feeling weakness and discomfort in his neck and left arm.Dr. Robert Watkins, who examined both players in Los Angeles on Wednesday after MRIs the previous day, recommended surgery for Fielder after seeing the herniation between the C4 and C5 disks.Daniels said Fielder will return to Texas and get a further evaluation Friday from Dr. Drew Dossett, a specialist who performed Fielders previous neck surgery.Fielder had played in 547 consecutive games and hadnt missed consecutive games since August 2007 before a cervical fusion of two disks in his neck in May 2014.The way its been described to me, when you fuse vertebrae, it puts the additional stress either above or below it in that joint, Daniels said. The fusion that he had is intact, there are no issues with that. But apparently somewhere along the line the herniated disk surfaced above that spot in his neck.Both Fielder and Choo are signed through the 20220 season.dddddddddddd The Rangers traded second baseman Ian Kinsler to the Detroit Tigers for Fiedler in November 2013, and later that offseason signed free agent Choo to a $130 million, seven-year deal.Fielder is hitting .212 with eight homers and 44 RBI in 89 games this season. Choo is hitting .260, with a .372 on-base percentage, in 33 games.In his short debut in 2014, Fielder hit .247 with three homers and 16 RBI. Fielder rebounded with a .305 average, 23 homers and 98 RBI in 158 games last year.Daniels said he wasnt sure how long Fielder had been feeling the symptoms, but was aware of the teams primary DH commenting to some people that he was trying to fight through the discomfort.Some of the things we were seeing, the struggle for him to get the ball in the air pull side, very similar to some of the things that we were seeing early in 2014, Daniels said. I dont know exactly for how long, but I think its reasonable to say this definitely did have an effect on his performance.Choo missed 54 games this season during two earlier stints on the disabled list. After missing 35 games because of a right calf injury, Choo returned for only one game before going back on the disabled list with a left hamstring issue.With Choo, we have a little more clarity, Daniels said. We expect him back in a couple of weeks.Texas recalled infielder Hanser Alberto and outfielder Delino DeShields from Triple-A Round Rock. ' ' '