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Dream over for Carl Long?

By Marty Smith
ESPN.com

Friday, May 29, 2009

Growing up in central North Carolina, a stone's throw from the Virginia border, all Carl Long ever wanted to do was race cars. He was reared in short track infields all over Tobacco Road, watching his daddy compete in the Baby Grand National Series in the mid-'70s. He dreamed that someday he'd rub fenders with Winston Cup royalty, the Allisons and the Waltrips and the Earnhardts. These days in his home north of Charlotte there are photos, several of them, of Long as a child posing with some ...

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