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it alas but Mother liked to hold onto those

vestigial organs of high social standing

"Jake is going to see about trading it in on a van

that we'll have specially equipped for you"

"I don't want us to sell that car It's

Grandmother Hudson's car It's -"

"Rain, dear," she said s as painful as it is

for all of us continually to face it, the fact is my

mother is dead and

buried There's no point in holding

onto the car I thought you were set on a more

reasonable road these days Why do you want to hold

onto a car that you will have to be carried into every

tio somewhere, not to mention carried out of Hoill thatyou delivered like an infant from

place to place?