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Why Live In A Vintage 1969 Rv? - by Scott Gilbertson

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Everything smells like grapefruit. Out of the corner of my eye I can see the Colorado sunshine, but under here it’s dark and cramped and it smells like grapefruit. The smell is transmission fluid, a slick, translucent red lubricant with an unpleasantly sweet citrus odor. I’ve been sticking my hands in it for months, over 4000 miles now, chasing a leak that won’t stop. That leak caused the engine to overheat, leaving me on my back in the grass and gravel at the side of the road half way up Dallas Divide, outside of Ridgway, Colorado. There’s blood on my knuckles, transmi

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