My father slid two dollars into a grubby hand. There were rows and rows of cars missing their front teeth with crippled ribcages roofs glinting like rippling oceans in the morning. I trudged through patches of mud and snow in my fathers old steeltoe boots. We stripped a bumper off of an ‘88 Accord. It ought to fit the ‘87 though the colors don’t match. I leaned like a tower to counterweight my arm dangling with my father’s toolbox towards the exit.

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