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For NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, Columbia more than home
COLUMBIA – Nancy Russell loves to tell a story about a boy named Jacob. Two years ago, when he was 8, Jacob and his mom were at a raceway in Knoxville, Iowa. They waited outside the trailer of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, Jacob’s favorite race car driver. Jacob wanted Stewart to autograph his toy race car, which he held in one hand. In the other, he held a Sharpie. Stewart came out of his trailer …