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Here's a really bad cell phone photo of my Saturday night at the Eric Church concert at Crawhads stadium in Hickory. Tickets were free, so we couldn't complain.

Carl Edwards' pink princess loving fan

I worked on a story this week about Emma Mitchum, a 4-year-old who is now a Carl Edwards fan. She's a sweet little girl with a form of spina bifida, a condition that didn't allow her spine to grow properly. It subsequently affects several of her other body systems, but Emma doesn't seem to be bothered much by it.

And now she has a giant racing trophy, which was donated to her by Carl Edwards after the Emerson 250 race just over a week ago.

Two things hit me as I worked on the story.

1) Carl Edwards seems to have given her the trophy without a second thought. I really do think that race car drivers are some of the kindest souls when it comes to doing things to help out kids (Victory Junction Gang, etc.)

2) As if Emma isn't cool enough on her own, she is now a 35-pound dude magnet. She has a trophy signed by Carl Edwards!

Here's a link to the finished story.