getting around on my own - by Ava - bookbear express
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an extended driving metaphor
by Georgia O’Keeffe I’m on the freeway and my driving instructor is on the phone with another student. He has a heavy Vietnamese accent and sometimes I can’t understand certain directions he gives. He’s offered me hand sanitizer five times. He keeps an iron grip on the steering wheel and yells at me to signal five seconds before I make the turn, which seems excessive. I’m pretty sure all his other students are 16 years old. When I was 16 I was preoccupied with studying for my SATs and running Model UN conferences and going to debate tournaments. My dad wanted to teach me how to drive but I…
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