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Re: [Fwd: Sera']

To: "Carl W. French" <cfrench@cybertours.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Sera']
From: drded@ix.netcom.com (David Deutsch)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:30:00 -0600 (CST)
Geez now I'm all choked up. Great story. Doesn't anyone know if crying 
on your keyboard is REALLY bad? :-) Thanks for sharing. Next thing you 
need, of course, is a North American MGB Register membership, call me 
1-800-NAMGBR-1.

Safety Fast,
David Deutsch   

You wrote: 
>I know this is a long one but I thought it too great an LBC story to 
not
>send it out to the list.
>
>Carl F
>67B

>Sera'...it will be!
>This is a great car story, and I have held off the telling because it 
is
>difficult to do justice to it.
>
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>I began to visit it .... three or four times a week!
>

>The day of my birthday was as well orchestrated as a major military
>campaign!  I was kept occupied for lunch, and frozen yogurt, and 
errands
>to the store (So my wife could call in to Ben and Carl's command post
>for the latest report!)
>
>Sam and Mark, from the dealership, convoyed to the car to my house, 
with
>Ben and Carl and his family. They hid it in the garage...Then thay all
>fled the scene!
>
>Susan delivered me precisely on schedule, and the whole family began 
to
>spontaneously arrive. Packages came through the door. We began to 
visit,
>and they gave me my first gift...I opened it to find a new MG/Safety
>Fast baseball cap...
>
>The little MG key was attached and they handed me the garage door
>opener!  "You'd better go outside, Dad"!, they said.
>
>We were all pretty choked-up at that point, as I hit the button on the
>garage door...
>There she was...All MINE!!!  The biggest red ribbon was completly
>wrapped around the car and a five-foot bow was on the top of the
>windshield, cascading down the hood!!!
>It was really magnificent. I wept, I talked, I told the whole story of
>my infatuation.  Ben said "Fire it up, Dad!"  I turned the key, and
>drove her out into the fading light. She was originally white, then 
dark
>"Mineral Blue". Now she had oxydized to a sort of dull plum color.
>...Didn't matter, She was the car of my dreams!  
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>Is this a great life or what?  Your friend, Brad French. Hampton, NH


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