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Officers of the Los Angeles Police Departments Northeast Division were on hand at UCLA Medical Center. Officers were at the bedside of a young boy they had previously "adopted as one of their own". Cheering on Shao Shao Deng as he approached his next major hurdle, the third surgical procedure intended to correct a congenital heart defect.
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September '99, some months after Shao-Shao's third surgery.
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