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TIL R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass was giving a transwoman named Tenika Watson a ride home when he was involved in a car crash. While Watson walked away from the collision with minor injuries, Pendergrass had a spinal cord injury, leaving him a tetraplegic, paralyzed from the chest down.

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