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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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