Personal Narrative: My First Car Story

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Now everyone has their first car stories but my mom's story is pretty special now back

in the eighties when my mom was still living in france my grandpa got her a 1975

Citroen 2cv now this car had is parts replaced so much that it wasn't even the same

car it started out as and the previous owners never bothered to repaint the new parts

so the car ended up looking like someone tasted the skittles rainbow and threw up on

it this didn't seem to bother my mom though as she was happy that she was getting a

new car even if it was a polished

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