And now Jimmie is breathing down the necks of Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for the most NASCAR titles ever, which is not bad for the son of a machine operator and a school bus driver who still has plenty of seasons ahead of him.

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"'Jesus in a Camper Van' takes the central idea from 'I am the Way', namely that the Son of God attracts bad luck by going round saying 'I am the Way' and embodies it in virtually identical words, " Strauss said.

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And that's one of the things that was so concerning to us yesterday, because we knew that our son was in a bad situation, but we had not -- we did not -- he was not confirmed dead.

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