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Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Kate Tellers, Senior Director, and your host for this episode.

I failed my driving test four times. I blame my parents, don't we all, who took turns teaching

me to drive in my high school parking lot in their stick shift cars. I found the mechanics of manual

driving, the sensitive clutch, the complexities of putting a Volkswagen in reverse, to be so

incredibly frustrating. I was convinced that this was my parents' plan to never let me feel the

ultimate teenage freedom of a car on the open road. It was the very first time I openly cursed

in front of both of them. I got very creative. Luckily, my best friend Jess

had her license and inherited an old Toyota van we nicknamed the Magic Bus and decorated with

rainbow blankets and glow in the dark stars. I'll never forget the feeling of my hair whipping

as we screamed freedom by George Michael and Corrine to school.

The mornings were ours. So many of us have had to get creative to get that first taste of car-fueled freedom.

Since it's summer, a time when people hit the road, revisit Highway 61 and pack into the old jalopy,

we'll be playing two stories about families and their relationships to cars.

First up is Marianne Ludwig. She told this at a Moth story slam in New York City, where the theme of the night was burned.

Here's Mary Ann live at the Moth.

So I loved every single moment of raising my two daughters, Michelle and Allison,

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