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To-day, however, marks a turning point, a milestone, a crisis in my career. Personally I consider this day one of triumph-I have sold my car. I have no independent means of transportation other than my own goodlegs-or; at least, they were so until I neglected
them-and I rejoice in my motorless state. I
feel a sense of exhilaration in my freedom
from Fords, from the bondage of Buicks, from
captivity in my Chandler Sedan. Such
exhilaration is doubtless hard to understand
because precisely the same conditions now
exist which originally drove me into buying
that first "Universal Car," only in a more
exaggerated degree. My children (and now
there are more of them) are always clamoring
for rides, even for the short distance of a few
blocks which separates our house from
school. My wife... never think[s] of walking.
and for myself, I have become mutely
accustomed to the role of family chauffeur
when not attempting that increasingimpossibility, the attempt to make both ends meet....
them-and I rejoice in my motorless state. I
feel a sense of exhilaration in my freedom
from Fords, from the bondage of Buicks, from
captivity in my Chandler Sedan. Such
exhilaration is doubtless hard to understand
because precisely the same conditions now
exist which originally drove me into buying
that first "Universal Car," only in a more
exaggerated degree. My children (and now
there are more of them) are always clamoring
for rides, even for the short distance of a few
blocks which separates our house from
school. My wife... never think[s] of walking.
and for myself, I have become mutely
accustomed to the role of family chauffeur
when not attempting that increasingimpossibility, the attempt to make both ends meet....
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I’m missing what you want me to do with this passage. Do you want a summary, an edit, a modernization, a continuation, an analysis, identification of the author/era, or something else?
Quick help while you decide:
- One-sentence summary: The narrator celebrates having sold his car and reclaimed freedom from the exhausting responsibilities and costs of family motoring, even though the same pressures that forced him to buy one (children, spouse, errands) remain.
- Modernized example (two sentences): Today is a milestone: I finally sold the car. I’m strangely thrilled to be car-free again — no more being the family chauffeur, no more payments or repairs — even though the kids still want rides and my partner refuses to walk.
Tell me which option you want (or describe a different task) and I’ll do it.
Quick help while you decide:
- One-sentence summary: The narrator celebrates having sold his car and reclaimed freedom from the exhausting responsibilities and costs of family motoring, even though the same pressures that forced him to buy one (children, spouse, errands) remain.
- Modernized example (two sentences): Today is a milestone: I finally sold the car. I’m strangely thrilled to be car-free again — no more being the family chauffeur, no more payments or repairs — even though the kids still want rides and my partner refuses to walk.
Tell me which option you want (or describe a different task) and I’ll do it.