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Cracks in the pavement, potholes pebbled with cold mix: ice-hardened tires thump and jar. Grip the wheel tightly; hubcaps litter the street. This is the season of lost pieces....
Intersection
red light: stop and wait huddled at the intersection the engine struggles and gasps too cold for the heater head-bowed pedestrians pass hunched into hoods faceless iced breath fogs...