Word: datsun
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...started 23 years ago. A young writer, Catherine Ryan Hyde, was driving home late one night in a disreputable section of Los Angeles when her aging Datsun stalled and started spewing smoke. She leaped out, away from danger, only to see two guys running at her with a blanket. Visions of muggings danced in her head. As she now recalls, "It did not occur to me that this was the good news...
...turns out, was on fire, burning along the throttle line. It could have exploded and killed her. Instead, some Good Samaritan called the fire department, the two guys with the blanket put out the blaze, and the Datsun was saved to drive another day. It took Hyde a while to understand that she too had been saved. "I finally realized these two guys could have died," she says. "I could have died. I turned around to thank them--and they weren't there. For the next few months, I walked around with this huge sense of regret. But without realizing...
...Gift: "I came by it accidentally: my 85-year-old mother gave it to me at a moment when my 12-year-old Datsun was on its deathbed...