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Cooper Dawson and Kingsley Feinman, have changed each other's lives.

Dawson is your basic jock. Feinman is your basic person with cerebral palsy.

They got to be pals during their freshman year at Hanahan High School, near Charleston, S.C.

Over the summer, Kingsley's mom asked Cooper if he'd like to be one of his aides who helps him get through the day. Cooper did.

“We have very few people who we trust to help us with these daily rituals of feeding and medication,” she tells 

. "It’s a lot to take on. It’s a major responsibility. Most people don’t step up to take on that responsibility."

But they didn't just sit around for a couple of hours. The did things.

This week, when it was time for Cooper to announce what school will get his football services, he let Kingsley have the spotlight.

“They’re friends, and as opposite as they are, as physically capable as Cooper is and as incapable and disabled as Kingsley is, it’s not about that in terms of friendship,” Kingsley’s mother said.

"You don’t have to have that in common. It’s ‘Do you connect?'

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