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1、最真实的拳王阿里当拳王阿里点燃亚特兰大奥运会的火炬时，他知道自己并没有被帕金森症打败。一直照顾他的妻子朗尼阿里说：“谁能想到他是一个与病魔战斗的人呢？现在人们可以了解到他最真实的一面了。即使不开口讲话，他仍然拥有激励人心的力量。”Love doesnt stop when a parent, spouse, or friend gets sick. Here, remarkable stories of stepping up, sticking around, and finding joy.By Camille PeriLonnie Ali was six years old and ha
2、d just gotten home from school in Louisville, Kentucky, when she saw a crowd of boys gathered around a handsome young man in a white shirt, abow tie（领结）, and black dress pants. Look, said her mother, standing in the doorway, thats Cassius Clay.Clay, who would soon claim the first of three heavyweigh
3、t boxing titles and adopt the Muslim name Muhammad Ali,made a point of（重视，强调）calling the shy little girl over. And from then on, she recalls, whenever he visited his mother across the street, he stopped by her house as well. He was like a big brother, she says. Hed sit and talk, and Id believe what
4、he said before Id believe my father. I figured my father would tell me stuff just because he wanted to protect me, but Muhammad would tell it to me the way it was.They remained friends, even as he became a world champion and she went off to college, where she got a psychology degree and then an MBA.
5、 When she was 17, Lonnie says, she realized that she would marry him somedayI knew it was fate, she says. Twelve years later, she did, becoming the boxers fourth wife. Muhammad had recently been diagnosed with Parkinsons disease, but the diagnosis didntfaze（打扰，折磨）Lonnie. I knew the man, not the cele
6、brity, she says. Thats who I loved. And he knew I would always be in his corner.For a long time, Muhammads disease barely slowed him down. Lonnie was more of a care partner than caregiver,nudging（轻推，刺激）her husband to take his medicine and accompanying him to doctors appointments. But gradually, his
7、symptoms became moreintrusive（侵入的，打扰的）. One turning point occurred about 15 years ago, when the couple were out to dinner in Boston. Muhammad went to put food in his mouth and he froze, she recallstemporaryimmobility（不动，固定）is characteristic of the disease. Another was when the famously animated boxe
8、r became stone-faced, also a classic sign of the disease. Then I knew I had some challenges that I really needed to deal with and learn about, Lonnie says.The challenges have been practical, emotional, and psychological as much as medical. Lonnie has had to recognize her own limitations: At one poin
9、t five years ago, as she cared for her husband, mothered their teenage son, Asaad, and ran a business, among other things, she felt so unfocused, she thought she hadattention deficit disorder（注意力缺损症）. I went to the doctor and fell asleep in the waiting room, she says. The doctor said, You dont have
10、ADD. Youre sleep-deprived.Shes also had to learn to accept what she cant control. Muhammad is still a big man, withpiercing（刺穿的，敏锐的）eyes and muscular arms, the result of working out every day. But his disease means that this man ofunparalleled（无比的，无双的）physical gifts now walks haltingly; once famous
11、for hisbanter（戏谑，逗弄）, he often sits in silence. Ive been with him for so long, I can basically look at him and tell what he wants and needs, Lonnie says.Yet the illness can steal only so much, and Muhammad still has plenty he wants to do. A quarter of a century into his struggle with Parkinsons dise
12、ase, hes taking piano lessons. Most important, this lifelong supporter of humanitarian causes still feels he has a mission to help other people. Early in his disease, Muhammadshied away from（躲避，回避）the spotlight. He used to play to the camera, but the camera was no longer his friend, Lonnie says. But
13、 then he made an appearance with Michael J. Fox, also a Parkinsons sufferer, who has been open about his own movement problems. I think he thought, If Michael can do it, I can do it.Now Muhammad Ali doesnt care what people think when they see him. Early this year, in an essay for National Public Rad
14、ios This I Believe, the boxing legend wrote about carrying the Olympic torch to light thecauldron（大锅）at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta and realizing that histremors（震动，颤抖）had taken over. I heard arumble（隆隆声，抱怨声）in the stadium that became apounding（重击）roar and then turned into adeafening（震耳欲聋的，极喧闹的
15、）applause, he wrote. He understood then that Parkinsons had not defeated him.Theres still a lot for me to learn from him, and I never forget that, Lonnie Ali says. Muhammad was theepitome（摘要，象征）of strength and beauty, but could someone with physical challenges really relate to him? Probably not. But now they can identify with him. We used to get letters all the time about people with Parkinsons who wouldnt go out of the house, but because they saw Muhammad out, now they go out.He still has that power to inspire peoplewithout even opening his mouth.
