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Slowoldguy

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  • Thanks for the memories

    [Read the article: My backroad memorial]
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    In my youth, I was the wheelman. Loading up a group of my brother's friends, tearing up the local backroads. My first air was in a 1960 Rambler that was more rust than sheetmetal. Speeding is one of the joys of youth, the evocation of that illusory immortality, power and empowerment that comes from the escape from adult supervision and ultimate faith in oneself.

    Now that I look back on that time from forty years on, I see I was stupid, stupid, stupid.

    But the roads were less crowded, the land was less congested, and we had a path stretching into infinity.

    Thank you, Susan Straight, for being a mother who still treasures her life, and takes the moment to recapture those days.

    Monday, April 9, 2007 04:32 AM

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