Letter of the Month: It’s Contagious
I just read Terry McGean’s column “Tales of Tenacity,” and now I want to bore you with my story. I was born in 1959 in a small community in the “thumb” of Michigan. My brother was eight years older than me and graduated from high school in 1969, and many of his friends had Chevelles, GTOs, Plymouths, Torinos, and so on — it was a great time to be a kid. My neighbor’s son-in-law worked for Chrysler at the time, and he purchased a brand-new blue 1970 Superbird. My mother would wonder what was wrong with me as I would sit in our garden picking raspberries and beans while just staring at that car — I thought it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever
