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I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else.

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Mark Martin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 9
Race Car Driver
Racing Automobile Driver
Batesville
Arkansas
Comfortable
Else
Kids
Anything
Think
Thinking
Telling

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