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JESSICA HAWKINS

y parents are really not car people. They couldn’t be any further from car people actually. My mum had a Nissan 100NX for years and I hated it with a passion. In my secondary school days I was so embarrassed by it, but looking back you could probably modify it into something quite cool. I gave my mum mild abuse for that. Oops.

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