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Middle Age Motorcycle Fix
By Jan Mikeal
I had just turned 50 years old and was getting depressing mail advertising things like hearing aids, and bunion surgery. Pharmacies were calling me to congratulate me and invite me to do business with them. The “Over 50 Club” sent me an invitation to their mixer to get acquainted with their programs, such as, “Quilt Night” and “Cooking for Digestive Distress”. Then my AARP card came in the mail, that did it.
As a girl in Mississippi, my brother had a bike but I didn’t –good girls didn’t ride motorcycles. Thirty years later, my husband put me on the front of his 83 Honda Magna. I couldn’t reach the ground and he had to scream instructions in my ear but I did 70 on the empty highway and smiled. I first bought a used 99 Sportster in November but waited until the snow melted to take the rider’s safety class in April of 2001. I loved the freedom, the peace and the power.
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I had just turned 50 years old and was getting depressing mail advertising things like hearing aids, and bunion surgery. Pharmacies were calling me to congratulate me and invite me to do business with them. The “Over 50 Club” sent me an invitation to their mixer to get acquainted with their programs, such as, “Quilt Night” and “Cooking for Digestive Distress”. Then my AARP card came in the mail, that did it.
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