Adventure on the Open Road...
by Charlotte Bennardo (Sorry, I'm a day late....) The theme is first freedoms . For me, that was getting my car; I worked so many summer jobs to buy it: McDonalds, yard work, babysitting, cleaning houses, waitressing. There was having a car given to me, much less being bought for me. That car meant, since I paid for it, the insurance, the gas, EVERYTHING that no one could tell me I had to loan it to anyone, or had to drive anyone anywhere. It. Was. Mine. (Of course, curfews still existed and the threat of having to surrender my keys if I got into an accident that was my fault or a ticket.) That first baby was a 1965 Ford Mustang.... Black leather bucket seats, standard 3 speed shift, and painted a cherry red. Like this, only red... Photo by Grish Petrosyan: https://www.pexels.com/photo/vintage-ford-on-street-15359749/ I didn't have to take the bus my senior year. I could drive to meet up with my friends. I didn't have to beg a ride from my brother (who always refused) or ...
