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Article: Valley Life: It's not just a car
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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I BOUGHT MY first car when I was16 years old. I couldn't wait to
get my driver's license and head for the open road -- or at least
the farthest grocery store to buy milk for my mother. Even if she
didn't need any milk.
I saved up my money while working at the old El Rey Theater in
Walnut Creek, advancing quickly up the corporate ladder from Popcorn
Girl to Candy Counter Girl to Ticket Girl. I was the one sitting in
that little booth on Main Street while all the other teenagers with
cars "cruised the Main."
Eventually I had enough money to buy the car of my dreams -- an
Austin Healy Sprite. I'd wanted a "roadster" ever since I'd read my
first Nancy Drew mystery.
Unfortunately, being a ...