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In case anyone wonders why even I would buy a car like that, I got it at a lot where it was on consignment. The lot owner let me put my entire fortune of $300 down on it and pay another $100 as I could. When I made the last payment I told him I'd found out he was taking a $200 loss out of his own pocket to sell me that car (the only one on his lot I could even maybe afford) and asked him why.
"That man who brought you in to look at the car? I was watching his face while you and I talked that first time. He was going to kill you. I could not in good conscience NOT get you away from him if helping to do that was within my reach."
He died several years later, and I've always wanted a tiny like Hot Wheels 1977 VW Rabbit to make into a Christmas ornament in his honor. He was right. That guy would have killed me--it was the dude who is responsible for a back injury I have that's now old enough to go out and buy itself a beer.
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