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[Universeman]

Because of my own pride I let myself get burned on a really bad deal on a brand spanking new Jeep Liberty diesel I purchased back in 06, it turns out that I overestimated a pay rais I had received and could not afford this thing and I really believe that it was only with the Lord’s help that I was able to sell that thing at all, I sold it just before the economic down turn last year. In fact this story gets really weird, so here it goes. I was buried in that Jeep by about 15 grand over what it was worth and I had no hope of ever coming up with that kind of cash, so after a lot of prayer I decided to ask my dad for help, my dad is an atheist but he is a nice guy, he would have liked to have helped me but he just didn’t have any extra money. About 6 months later, the day before my youngest daughter was born I received a letter from him, in it was a check for $20,000, I about hit the floor. It turns out that a couple of months after we spoke about my problems he won the lottery, not millions, but enough to pay off his mortgage with enough left over to help me out of my bind. So we finally got rid of that dang Jeep and I started riding the bus to work and I did so for almost a year, but I really needed a car so that I could get around the base in order to be able to do my job but I was unwilling to enter into another bad car transaction. After a couple of months of not really looking but keeping an eye out my wife stumbled across an ad for a very unique car that she had never heard of before, it was an 82 Subaru Brat and the seller was only asking $1,800 for it, I didn’t think that I had any chance of being the first caller, but I was, I told the seller that I would come prepared to complete the transaction first thing after the bank opened the following morning. I showed up and it was in way better condition then I could have possibly have hoped for, even the engine was practically new with only about 30,000 on it after being replaced 10 years ago, the weirdest thing is that it was listed on Hollomanyardsales.com (cool site) and things like this get snatched up almost instantly after being listed, the seller told me that morning that as soon as we had finished talking about the deal his phone rang off the hook the rest of that evening and the following morning with people calling about the Brat but he told me that he had a feeling that he should hold the car for me, because he felt that I was the right one to own it!

Plus I love space and astronomy (I’m getting a BS in Space Studies), isn’t it cool that Heavenly Father picked the perfect car for my needs that is made by the only car manufacture that is named for a open star cluster which is known here as the Pleiades, or Subaru in Japanese! The Subaru emblem is the star cluster Pleiades (star cluster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia