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The accident that changed the course for the founder of GoodLife Fitness
The life of David Patchell-Evans could have been a tragedy. Thanks to his relentlessly positive outlook, it’s one of the country’s greatest success stories. The man everyone — even his own mother — calls “Patch” was born into poverty, lost his father at …