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    Family Vacation

    Nov 26, 2020 3 minutes
    By Kathy Burgess, OOLTEWAH, TENNESSEE

    We were only 48 hours into our family’s three-week road trip when the car broke down. White smoke billowed from the engine. The dashboard warning lights went on.

    “Where did all this come from?” my husband, Gareth, said. He pulled off at the next exit.

    I glanced at our sons in the back seat. Colin, seven, and Aidan, five, looked disappointed. We were in Michigan, in the middle of nowhere, on our way to Mackinaw Island. From there we planned to visit the Badlands

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