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The Love that Got Away

February 20, 2012

The first love for many teenage boys is his first car. The design, the powerful engine and the idea it will attract beautiful girls.
But WFDD’s Real People, Real Stories guest commentator Skip Staples learns the hard way there’s another, less glamorous side to owning such a machine. Staples is a creative writer based in Sauratown Mountains in Stokes County with his wife, Leslie, and with their several dogs.

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