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now I own a car

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.11.15

At 43, I now own a car for the first time in my life; nay, it's an SUV, and we can thank parenthood.

This is the vehicle. We'll take possession on Saturday unless something goes wrong.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

—George Orwell