TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) Rain and wrecks pushed NASCAR to the edge of darkness Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, where three of the biggest names in the sport led the field to final flag.

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" Emerging in late afternoon from the darkness of a movie theater is just as bad: "Local sunlight after rain had, quite unaided, the power not just to make my spirits drop--many things did that--but to convince me, beyond anything that could counter, that life would never again have anything to offer me.

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The rain, as he had foretold, had returned, whispering and drumming outside, and bringing inside a deeper shade of darkness.

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