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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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