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[h=2]CRANDALL: Hall of Fame is Martin's 'crown jewel'[/h] Monday, 16 January 2017


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Mark Martin expects his life will be different after this week.
Friday night, Martin, along with Benny Parsons, Raymond Parks, Rick Hendrick and Richard Childress, will officially be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame during a ceremony in downtown Charlotte. Considered by some within the NASCAR community as "the greatest driver never to win a championship," being in the Hall of Fame will give Martin recognition for his many other accomplishments.

"The most obvious way [life will be different] is when I'm introduced at a function now people can call me something," Martin said.
Martin continued with a laugh, "I have a title."
Without a Daytona 500 win on his résumé, Martin will never be introduced as a Daytona 500 champion. The same goes for not having won the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. The lack of a championship – having come up short on five different occasions – leaves Martin without that moniker as well.
Now, NASCAR Hall of Famer sounds just as sweet. But Martin acknowledges before this honor one had to search for a title to associate him with.
"Although I had done a lot of cool and amazing things in my career, this obviously is the crown jewel of my career," Martin said. "And it means more now – because I've not been in a racecar for three years – than anything I achieved when I was racing, because I was so busy whatever I achieved I didn't pay any attention to; I just kept storming forward worrying about how I was going to win the next race."

In 882 Cup starts, Martin won 56 poles and 40 races. Among those, Martin captured a win in the sport's most grueling races, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2002 (pictured, with trophy) as well as two in the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
In all, Martin led 12,879 laps and finished in the top five in points 13 times in his 22 full seasons.
The closest Martin came to capturing that elusive championship was 1990, when he was the runner-up to Dale Earnhardt by 26 points. Having lost 46 points on a penalty early in the year, it was a "what could have been" season.
The 2002 title fight was the only other year where Martin lost the championship by double digits. That year, Tony Stewart bested Martin by 38 points on his way to his first of three championships. While a championship was never in the cards for the Batesville, Arkansas native, Martin never let it define him. Success for him also wasn't limited to the Cup Series.
With 49 career Xfinity Series wins in 236 starts, Martin held the all-time win record until 2011, when Kyle Busch tied it and then began setting a new one. Martin also has 30 poles in the series. In the Camping World Truck Series, Martin went to victory seven times in 25 starts.
If one wants to go even further, Martin is also a five-time International Race of Champions titlist. The NASCAR finale in 2013 was the last time Martin sat in a racecar, and he's been enjoying retirement ever since.
"Now that I sort of have had time for (being inducted into the Hall of Fame) to soak in, it's sort of like the – I don't know how to put it – it's the last big deal, or the big win," Martin said. "It is the crown jewel of my career, for sure."
Yes, life will be different for Martin after this week, and it's going to take time to get used to.
"Don't forget the people in that Hall of Fame are my heroes," Martin said. "The founders of the sport, the real men that did it with their bare hands. I'm a little bit uncomfortable going in there with them to be honest with you, because I don't feel like I belong in that kind of company."
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Mark Martin's startling revelation: 'Felt awkward about attending a race'

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CONCORD, N.C. — Mark Martin made a startling revelation on Saturday.

Martin, a three-decade veteran of NASCAR racing, a driver who drew wide respect from fans and peers throughout his career, hasn't been at a racetrack since he retired from the sport after the 2013 Sprint Cup season finale.

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Why? Because he didn't feel like he belonged there.

"I didn't really feel like I had a place," he said. "When I drove a racecar there was a place for me here. I felt kind of awkward about attending a race being as that I don't work on a car or drive a racecar anymore."

For his fans and competitors, that must be a stunning admission. For a man who dedicated much of his life to the sport, who was known for being as humble in victory as defeat, who put a more positive spin on his five runner-up finishes in his elusive quest for a championship than most could have — it was simply who he is.

Martin always treated both his career and the sport with respect. He genuinely treated each win as if it could be his last, embraced his achievements without boasting about them.

Now, he's back at the track for the first time after being named to the NASCAR Hall of Fame earlier this week. He will drive the pace car for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Green flag is scheduled about 6 p.m. ET.

Martin admits that over the past few years, he's felt he didn't really have a role at the track. After competing fiercely for years, he wasn't working on cars, he wasn't working with rookies, he wasn't a team owner.
So what would he do at the track.

"I'm not claiming that my thinking is correct, but when you no longer drive a racecar, what use are you in the garage," he said. "After you've been a racecar driver, so you're going to hang around and tell somebody that might or might not want to know what happened 30 years ago out there. It's weird. I just didn't feel like I had a place. When you're a driver that's your deal. That's what you do and that's what you focused on."

He's not the only one. Excepting drivers who went into television roles or those who were involved in team ownership, a retired driver sometimes just disappears from the track life. After years of traveling and testing and spending a high portion of every week entrenched in driving and all that it takes to continually stay abreast of the changes, one might think it was simply a relief to be home with family.

In racing, though, there is a separate family atmosphere, a camaraderie drivers share as they spend countless hours in the motorhome lot with their competitors. How does one let go of all that?

"I've complained about this in the past, once drivers step out of those racecar, the hole closes behind them and they're gone," Martin said. "If you notice, Ricky Rudd is gone. Terry Labonte, prior to [his] Hall of Fame [induction], was pretty much missing. Driver upon driver upon driver, each one that quit racing, you never heard from them again and there's a reason for that. Nothing really compares to what they did do. It's hard for them to come to the racecar when they don't feel like they have something to contribute."


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The hole hasn't closed on Martin, though. Now it is wide open once more. Selected for the 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame class, he'll most likely be a little busy for the coming months. He'll be inducted into the Hall of Fame in January — and will forever be known for his enshrinement there as much as for the myriad of accomplishments in his career.

And despite his absence from the track in recent years, he's clearly been held close in the minds of his former competitors. Martin said that he received especially special texts from two men he battled for championships in his career — former Roush Fenway Racing teammate Matt Kenseth and six-time champion Jimmie Johnson.

"I got a text from Jimmie Johnson that is incredible," he said. "I would love to share but it was sent to me in private and that is what it is. But it was unbelievable. I also got one from Matt Kenseth that was pretty unbelievable as well. Those two I screen shot, for life. They were preserved forever for me."
Martin has been enjoying life away from the track as well. He's earned that. The life of a racecar driver, especially in the era when Martin burst onto the scene, is grueling and time-consuming. It costs one valuable time with family.

Now, with his racing career behind him, Martin is finding a new kind of life. And while he misses his friends from the old one, he doesn't necessarily miss everything else that it required.

Just as he did his racing career, Martin seems to be embracing the post-driving life fully — and making the most of his return to the track.

"I want to explain that for me, looking out my windshield is very exciting right now," he said. "When I look in my rearview mirror it is a very, very foggy view of driving racecars. I'm cool with what's in my windshield right now. Really cool, really excited. That being said — I'm saying I don't miss driving racecars, but I have missed the people. The longer it's gone, the more I've missed.

"In the last two months, I've really noticed that I miss the fans, I miss the competitors and I miss the members of the media, the journalists and all that were around the race track and were my family. … This is a real cool opportunity for me to get back, connect with what was my family for 30 years."
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FASTRUCKMatt Martin (born December 17, 1991) is an American stock car racing driver.He is no longer interested in racing. He's a college student at Lyon College in Batesville, Ar. He is the son of former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Mark Martin.

Career

Martin's career began in quarter midgets when he just was seven years old. His racing experience also includes Bandoleros,[1] Legend cars, the FASTRUCK Series, and the FASCAR Pro Truck Series. He received the nickname "Little Intimidator" due to his driving style.[2]

In 2003, Martin was signed to a driver development contract with the Ford Motor Company, making him the youngest member of the Ford racing family. By 2004 at age 13, Martin had five wins in the FastKids division of the FASTRUCK Series, a series for youths aged 12 to 17.[3]

In 2005, he won two races while competing against drivers ten to twenty years his senior in the FASCAR league. He raced the No. 66 Ford F-150 Truck. In the game video NASCAR 06: Total Team Control which takes place in 2005, Martin can be noticed as a fantasy driver for the Whelen Modified Tour. In 2006, at 14 years of age, he ran a limited schedule in the southern tour of the ASA Late Model Series, as well as running in the FASCAR Pro Truck and Sportsman Series. He won a late model race at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida and finished third in the season points.[4]

During the 2007 season, Matt was moved over from the Ford Motor Company development program to Ginn Racing's development program; headed up by Mark Martin. Matt planned on running a late model schedule very similar to teammate Ricky Carmichael. Mark and Matt planned on working together throughout Mark's limited NEXTEL Cup schedule. During a March 8, 2008 airing of Speed Channel's Trackside, Mark announced that Matt ended his racing career. Mark stated his son wanted to concentrate on his education but didn't rule out a possible return to racing;[5] later that year Matt Martin stated that racing was "not my thing [anymore]".[6]

As of September 2010, Martin has moved to North Carolina to take an internship with Hendrick Motorsports, working with the organization's strength and conditioning coach.[7]
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NASCAR Champion Mark Martin on Retirement, Racing, and What He Drives Now

In 31 years in NASCAR's Cup Series, he won 40 races and finished second in the standings five times. Martin also has five IROC championships. He retired in 2013.

By John Pearley Huffman
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Car and Driver: Are you enjoying your retirement?

Mark Martin: It's unbelievable. I spend most of my time fixing stuff. I really like to fix things on my motorcoach, but I actually ran out of things to fix on that, so I fix whatever else needs fixing. I make whatever I have look better. Make it nicer. Make it cleaner. I'm a little OCD about my stuff. I sold my airplane because over the last two years my wife and I have gone everywhere in the motorcoach just about. It's got all our stuff in it and it's like being at home.

What's the biggest difference about being retired?

I stay really busy. I've had to adapt to doing everything myself. I used to have help to do everything. Now anything I can't do myself, I have to recruit somebody to help me. I like jobs I can do by myself. I can dig in and get 'em done.

Are you keeping up with your legendary fitness regimen?

Absolutely. Five or six days a week in the gym. I train just as hard as I ever did. I've probably let my nutrition program slip a little since I'm not competing, but not that much. Makes life a lot easier when you're not so picky about your food. Now if I'm hungry and it's time to eat and it's fried chicken, well, I'll eat fried chicken. I haven't slipped so much. It's just that now I'm not a pain in the ass.

Is there anything you miss about being on the race circuit?

I don't miss anything about it to the point that it ever dawns on me. But if you dig a little deeper in that, it's an adjustment to not be worth a damn at anything. I like being good at something. When I was a kid growing up, I wasn't really worth a damn at anything until I started racing cars. And now I'm not worth a damn at anything again. I miss that and I miss seeing my car number at the top of the scoreboard. That was very euphoric for me. And I miss my compatriots and friends at the racetrack some. I didn't allow racing to be too much fun. Because I took it so seriously, it took a lot of the fun out of it. I looked at the guys I raced against as the best in the world. And in order to beat them, I had to do more than them. I had to work harder, I had to want it more, I had to pay more attention. That's a lot of pressure, and it was the focus of my life for 40 years. I don't see me competing at anything ever again.

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So it's a different you?

I'm wired up to be that intense, and not competing is a good thing right now. I'm really enjoying this next chapter in my life. It's a second life. That's what it feels like. I'm fully retired. There's not any way I would take a job. Of any kind. Broadcasting, you name it.

Do you still get recognized in public?

Yeah, but not nearly like I did. It's really calmed down a lot and that's great. I'm happier to be treated as just another person off the street rather than somebody who was a semicelebrity or whatever. I like being anonymous.

You're living in Arkansas?

I just moved to Montana. We're gonna do the summers in Montana and the winters in Indio, California, for now, until we decide to do something different. Montana summers are magnificent.

What do you drive every day?

A motorcoach, a Ford Explorer, a Ford F-150, a VW Bug, an Audi S5, and an Audi S6. Take your pick. The Audis are superbad. The S5 is totally customed out. I have a Ford GT on order, and it's supposed to be delivered in the spring.

Are you going to keep the GT in Montana and run it on the "Montanabahn" or in California?

I haven't decided. In Montana, they chip-seal the roads, so I'm not positive I want it up there.

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What stands out as your greatest accomplishment? All those IROC championships?

My accomplishment in the IROC series is the crown jewel of my career outside of being inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, which supersedes everything. But the most outstanding thing I ever did in a race car was done in those IROC cars. For some reason. I don't know why, that was the big deal. That was just magic for me.

Would your life today be different if you had won a NASCAR Cup title?

Absolutely not. That's what I try to tell people who still fret about it. I tried as hard as I could and I would have won one if I could, but I didn't. So why get twisted up about it? Move on. You know?

Is there anything you would have done differently?

I wish I was smarter. And I wish I was better, but I wasn't. But I don't know. Racing was so good to me. To have had the success I had was an incredible dream. I'm so grateful for it. You could convince me that I just dreamed it all. That it didn't really happen. I'm a forward-looking person. I've never looked back, ever. I'm not even sure I did all that stuff. All I can see is what's out in front of me.

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Default What Happened Between Mark Martin and Jack Roush? David DubczakSeptember 28, 2009

What Happened Between Mark Martin and Jack Roush?

David DubczakSeptember 28, 2009
Mark Martin and Jack Roush built each other. Mark Martin was a driver who, though obviously skilled (winning four ASA championships between 1978-1986), struggled to make it in NASCAR early in his career.

Jack Roush was a brilliant Ford engineer who started a race team and a racing engineering company. It wasn’t until the two hooked up in 1988 in the Winston Cup Series that the two were successful at the top level of motorsports.

Martin and Roush stayed together through the 2006 season, 18 years during which Martin would finish second in the championship standings four times. When Matt Kenseth won Roush Racing’s first championship in 2003, Roush was sure to thank Martin in every victory speech. Martin tried to retire in 2005, but due to driver shuffling in the organization, Roush needed Martin to stay, and he agreed.

Mark Martin and Jack Roush seemed inseparable, like best friends or long-lost brothers. Everyone thought Martin would be in a Roush Ford until the last time he hung up his helmet. It was a given.

Then, they split.

Martin went into semi-retirement with rival Dale Earnhardt Encorporated and the affiliated Ginn Racing, but came back to full time competition this year with Roush-Fenway racing’s arch nemesis, Hendrick Motorsports (and, quite frankly, is kicking the pants off of the whole Roush organization).
Seeing Mark Martin in a Hendrick Chevy was almost like seeing Dale Earnhardt in a Toyota—unfathomable. And, in victory speeches or otherwise, Mark Martin no longer thanks Jack Roush, and Jack Roush no longer thanks Mark Martin.

So what happened?

To be short, we don’t know. Probably the only two who do know are Mark Martin and Jack Roush. There have been no stories, no media investigations, no scathing tell-alls by the hauler driver.

Perhaps this is how it should be, but we can still wonder. Was Mark kept out of retirement a year too long? Was he hoping for some sort of management or ownership role at Roush Racing in his retirement that Jack was reluctant to give?

This is pure speculation, as it should be, and probably will remain. Mark Martin and Jack Roush are two of the most respected people in the garage, and I highly doubt either of them would come out and say anything, should anything have happened.

It will be interesting, though, if Mark Martin is able to win his first championship this year, if he will thank Jack Roush for the role he played in Mark’s career. Yes, he will have won the championship in a Hendrick car, but without Jack Roush, there would be no Mark Martin, and without Mark Martin, there would be no Jack Roush.


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Goodyear will test a larger Sprint Cup Series tire on Oct. 6 at Richmond International Raceway. The new tire amounts to 1.5 inches taller and wider, in an effort to give the unruly COT more mechanical grip and handle better. I think this will be a good move.

The last few years in Formula One, they had been racing on a grooved tire—the cars were getting too fast, so the sanctioning body took some grip away to slow the cars down for safety reasons. This year, however, they made some aerodynamic changes to slow the cars, and put pure slicks back on to improve the mechanical grip in the corners. This has made for some exciting dogfights in Formula One.

I used to be completely against any change to the COT. To provide a good show, I thought the cars needed to drive ugly, and the uglier the better. The drivers in NASCAR are the best in the world, and if the cars handled perfectly, they wouldn’t need the best drivers in the world to drive them.

I figured out the problem with my old way of thinking when I realized the cars simply cannot race against each other unless they're handling. Only when a driver can sail into a corner with full confidence that his car will stay under him can he truly race the other car. This is why the bigger tire will be good, should it be implemented.
I’m sure NASCAR can find some way to limit the costs—we’ve seen too many good things happen with the COT and underfunded teams to undergo wholesale expensive changes now, far removed from just a few years ago when NASCAR would announce that a certain manufacturer would be allowed a nose kick-out next week.

Reporting for NASCAR Now on ESPN after the infamous driver's meeting this summer, Dale Jarrett said, “The cars have the same size tire they did when I started racing 20 years ago, but have 200 more horsepower.”

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Default NASCAR Hall-of-famer Mark Martin enjoying life out of the spotlight

NASCAR Hall-of-famer Mark Martin enjoying life out of the spotlight

'It's hard to come back'
By Al Pearce
Jul 1, 2016
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NASCAR Team Owner Jack Roush once said of Mark Martin, “He became one of the most driven and committed people I’ve ever seen.”





That was several years after Martin did 19 seasons with Roush-Fenway Racing, winning 35 Sprint Cup races and finishing four times as championship runner-up.





The early years of his climb from being a “broken man” with a drinking problem to a popular Hall of Fame racer were brutally painful. Martin left full-time NASCAR after 1982. He enjoyed some minor-league success between 1983 and 1988, enough for Roush to hire him as driver for his startup Cup team. Even so, there were still some issues until Martin stopped drinking and matured into the successful racer he always longed to become.





His 35-year NASCAR résumé shows 40 victories in Cup, 49 in Xfinity and seven in the Camping World Truck Series. He also won 13 IROC races and five titles in 12 years.





Martin, 57, can count on one hand the Cup races he’s attended since retiring after the 2013 season finale at Homestead.





Autoweek spoke with Martin about being among the Class of 2017 set for induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.












Autoweek: Did you expect to make the NASCAR Hall of Fame in only your second year of eligibility?





Mark Martin: It’s not something I expected in my lifetime, but if it was going to happen, it’s happened sooner than I dreamed. Look, I don’t have a Daytona 500 or a (NASCAR) championship. For the people who wanted so badly for me to have one or both, I look at them and say, ‘How would my life be different today if I’d won one of them?’ And I don’t believe it would have been any different. However, I do feel the Hall of Fame induction (in January) will change my life in a small way. The only way I got in was my body of work over 30 or 35 years. This is my crown jewel, one that speaks not of one year’s success or one great achievement, but one little piece at a time. That’s significant to me.





AW: This trip to Charlotte (on Memorial Day weekend) is your first to a track since your retirement in 2013. Why have you stayed away so long?





MM: A lot of drivers are normal in the head; some of us are a little bit mental. I’m not claiming my thinking is correct, but when you no longer drive a race car, what use are you in the garage? After you’ve been a driver, are you gonna hang around and tell someone who might or might not want to know what happened 30 years ago? It’s weird because before (the HOF announcement), I didn’t feel I had a place in the garage. When you’re a driver, that’s what you focus on. Once you step out of your car, the hole closes up and you’re gone. There’s a reason you don’t hear about (retired drivers) Terry Labonte and Ricky Rudd and Harry Gant and others after they’re gone. It’s because nothing compares to what they used to do. It’s hard to come back because they don’t feel they have anything to contribute. I had a place here when I was driving but not after I got out at Homestead.




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AW: You raced virtually nonstop at some level for almost 40 years. Do you miss not being out there?





MM: Looking out my (life’s) windshield is very exciting right now. Looking out my rearview mirror is a very foggy view of driving race cars.

That is to say, I’m really cool, really excited with what’s outside my windshield, and I haven’t missed driving race cars. But I have missed the

fans and the competitors

and the members of the

media. The longer it’s been (since retirement), the more I’ve missed them because those people were my family for 30 years.





AW: Overall, looking back on everything, what are you most proud of in your career?





MM: My greatest sense of pride isn’t what I accomplished from when I started driving for Jack Roush in 1988 until I hung up my helmet in 2013. It’s really what happened before I got the ride at Jack Roush’s. It was that a young guy who lived and raced in Indiana could build a Cup car and make it special enough and fast enough to sit on the pole in its third race (at Nashville in 1981). That couldn’t happen today because there’s not enough (creative) leeway. To do that in 1981 is an interesting story and something I’m really proud of.







AW: You finished second in points five times—four with Roush and one with Hendrick. In 1990, you finished second to Dale Earnhardt by 26 points after a 46-point technical penalty early that season. Does that lost championship still bother you?





MM: I still don’t grieve over that one or think about it too much. It was only my third try at it. I was 31 years old and thought it would come soon. We’d started Roush Racing in 1988 and were third in points in 1989. We scored more points than anybody in 1990 but had that penalty. I never really sweated it through the ’90s, but once we got to the 2000s, I saw the end coming in sight. And because I wanted it so bad, I allowed (the pursuit of the Cup) to take the fun out of racing; I wish I hadn’t done that. I think I’ll be more remembered as a NASCAR Hall of Famer than if I’d won that championship in 1990.







AW: During a Hall of Fame teleconference, you described yourself as “a broken man” when you left NASCAR after 1982. What broke you?





MM: At an extremely young age (19), I became the youngest national champion in the (American Speed Association) Series, which was booming for Late Models. And I won it three years in a row, and it was a pretty big deal. So I built a Cup car with no help from the South. Yeah, we hung the body down here, but for the most part, the car was built in Indiana and on my team’s principles. We had finishes of third, seventh and 11th in five Cup starts, won two poles and the worst it qualified was sixth. So it looked like (NASCAR) was going to be as easy as ASA.





I was young and had never stubbed my toe; I was 21 or 22 and felt like I had a reason to be cocky … but I shouldn’t have been. I didn’t know failure and wasn’t afraid of failure because I thought I controlled my destiny.





When I bombed and failed so miserably (running the full schedule) in 1982, that was tough. After that season, I had a large amount of debt. Goodyear and (parts supplier) Hutcherson-Pagan let me have a lot of credit because I didn’t have any money to pay them. When the season ended, I had an auction to sell everything I owned to pay off my debts. But I didn’t have anything to start my career over. Not even one tool. Economically, I was broken, but emotionally I was broken, as well. Looking back, had I not been broken like that I would never, ever have become the person I am today. I’d be a different person and I wouldn’t want to think about being that different person. That failure had a profoundly positive effect on me, but it wasn’t positive for years.




Mark Martin goes three-wide with Jeff Burton and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2002.







AW: Obviously, at some point you overcame that failure.





MM: That first (Cup) win in 1989, at Rockingham, in victory lane I said something like I felt my life was complete. People saw that I had talent in ’81, yet they stood back and watched me fail and watched me go away. They didn’t offer a hand or say, “Hey, look, we want you to stay; we’ll do this for you or we’ll let you drive this car; or whatever.” When Jack Roush gave me a second chance—and after we finished second place five times before we won—that first win made my life complete.





That one deal meant that everything I’d gone through and the hardship I’d endured personally for feeling like a failure the first time had been worth it all. But I’m definitely glad I went through that hardship because it helped shape who I became.















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