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Back in Nashville WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND SON?
He said he found a 1953 Willys Jeep Wagon
it sat outside my sitting in a fi eld. My heart sank. “Why don’t
we look for something a little smaller,” I said.
shop two days There was a moment of silence, and I knew
right off the bat that he had been love struck.
before I could It was much like trying to change the Pope
into a Pentecostal preacher. The words had
fallen on deaf ears. I small talked and changed
even get the the subject hoping he would forget. He didn’t.
His mind was made up. After two weeks had
courage up to gone by, the bottom dropped out, and I was
slim pickins in the shop. Nothing was coming
look at it. my way. I called him back to say I thought
I could do something with the old Willys,
knowing I had totally slap lost my mind.

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