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ALL GROWN UP

By Marty Smith

Monday, May 5, 2008

[For more on the evolution of this story, check out Marty Smith's Behind the Story] [For a bonus photo gallery of Junior, click here] The paint bucket sat across the shop floor, and Dale Earnhardt ordered his kid to pick it up. It was bulky, the five-gallon kind, weighing every bit as much as the boy. Dale Earnhardt Jr. had no hope of picking it up, and he knew it, so the 8-year-old moped across the floor, questioning his old man's direction: How could Daddy ask this? Why does he gotta make m ...

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