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A 12-year-old boy is learning about business, and life, slinging snow cones in Florida

The Central Florida 7th grader, Dreyton McDonald, has been in the snow cone-selling business going on three years and hopes to expand his empire.
Dreyton McDonald sells snow cones from his mobile shop, Ice Ice Dreyton, in Ocala, Fla.

Dreyton McDonald knows he's not a regular kid and he likes it that way.

"I guess you can say, I'm a businessman, ma'am," the 12-year-old politely told NPR.

And he has been for several years now.

At age 9, he said his father, Dominic McDonald, approached him with a proposition: "My dad told me to choose between selling doughnuts or and I didn't

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