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SWEET DREAMS

If there’s one piece of advice we’d all do well to remember, it’s that you only live once, life is short, and you’ve got to roll the dice sometimes. Our fleeting time on this earth is all too brief for what-ifs, and when fate throws tragedy into your path, you’ve got to scoop it up with both arms and channel that negative energy into something positive.

“I started looking for a project car after the family suffered a hard year,” recalls Nathan Mercer. “I lost my mum in December 2014, and really didn’t know what to do with myself; I threw myself into work, tried to pick up a few hobbies, started playing basketball. Then with my dad getting ill the following March, I knew what I needed to do – get myself the sort of project

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