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The accident set off an inevitable chain of events: untold numbers of phone calls with insurance claim adjusters, getting a rental car, dealing with the repair company, receiving news that the car is unfixable and then starting the search for a new one.

Luckily, I have a friend who works at a local car dealership and she hooked me up with a no-pressure salesman who had me in new wheels in 48 hours. The fact that you can now buy a car online truly is a marvel. The hours of sitting around waiting for the finance office to get a loan approval happens while you’re working or at the supermarket or binge-watching “Dead to Me” (Christina Applegate, y’all!) and “Fleabag” (one of the best comedies on TV ever).

Once I had the car - it’s a new Toyota Corolla - I spent several days trying to program the entertainment/navigation system. Sure, I love the hands-free calling, Spotify streaming, back-up camera bells and whistles, but I feel like the moonshot was an easier process.

The car crash came on the heels of the mentally and physically exhausting process of cleaning out and selling my late mother’s home and traveling to Portland and Los Angeles to promote my poetry collection. I was, in a word, spent.

On a whim, a friend and I decided to drive to Savannah and Tybee Island. While walking on the beach, riding a jet ski and enjoying delicious food, I realized it was the first real vacation I’d had in more than five years.

By the time some of you read this, I’ll be in London for a reading with Academy Award-winning screenwriter and memoirist Dustin Lance Black (“Milk”) and catching up with all the UK friends I haven’t seen since 2014.

The car crash put a period at the end of a story that began almost three years ago when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. I had to press the pause button, but I’m finally, moving on with my life and what comes next. A new car will take me there.

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