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BICYCLES TO BEETLES

When I was a teenager, our neighbours stored their Beetle in our garage and, when they moved away, they said we should make an offer on the car. My father proposed R500 and they accepted. That is where my story started: my dad bought me a R500 Beetle for my 16th birthday. At that stage, I had

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