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In the Rear-View Mirror

Well. Here we go.

I’ve only ever owned one car.

She was my first grown-up purchase. After graduation it became quickly evident that the scooter I’d used to zip around campus wasn’t going to cut it on the slippery streets of Seattle.

My dad helped me find her on eBay. She was a used 2002 Hundai Santa Fe with silver skin peppered in dents. She’d previously been…