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Here's some nostalgia for those of us who go WAAAAAY way back: Old Brown! Still alive and kicking (well...it has a new battery and it starts ALMOST every time) at Susan and Donnie's. We hung out there this afternoon and Rygel had SOOO much fun zipping around the property! For those of you who don't know, Old Brown was Dale's truck until he graduated from high school. By the time they bought the Dodge, Old Brown had no air conditioner, only one mirror (The rear view mirror melted and fell off and the driver's side mirror got smashed by a chicken on Highway 29 in Liberty Hill. Yeah you read that right.), the ceiling hung down but was tacked up in places with thumbtacks, the front passenger seat didn't always lock into place and sometimes slid around when Dale accelerated, until he put the CD player in the radio didn't work so he kept a boombox on the floor, and the driver's side door didn't latch all the way (still doesn't if you look closely at the pic) and flew open every time he made a right turn. We pretty much lived in that truck the second half of senior year, driving all over the place just for fun (gas was like 99 cents a gallon and neither of us paid for it ourselves back then) and taking it wherever. It's kind of a symbol of some of the best times ever.