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us, honking at us like they thought we had just
parked there for fun.
Finally, all of us, with the exception of
Buster, got out and pushed it off the main road.
We thought our ride was over and we could
walk back to the church, when again the car
fired up. Why we let Buster talk us into
climbing back in, I can’t recall, but it must have
been some lapse of mental reasoning, for soon
we were riding along again. The slightest
pebble in the road made the back end bounce,
and it would hit pavement, with the trunk
banging away. We would continue to bounce
and bang for another half mile.
Buster suggested we find a country road so
“we could open it up”.
We found a desolate road, and he floored
it. The engine roared and the car chugged
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