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Gawking at the vehicle that now lay on the floor at my feet, I bent over slowly and carefully lifted it off of the ground. Nothing, not a scratch was present. NOTHING HAPPENED! Trying to speak, to say anything at all, I managed to stammer “Oh my good Lord that was a close one.” Then I noticed the room had gone silent.
Everyone that had been working had stopped when the car clattered to the floor. Once they realized everything was fine all I could hear was question after question. “Did it work?” They probed.
“How’d the brakes do?”
“Did everything go okay?”
I smiled broadly at all of them. “YES, FANTASTIC, YES!” My excitement could not possibly be contained. Jumping up and down I felt that the mood in the room had suddenly been lifted. Just

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