Early ’90s Nissan, a hideous shade of brown. Its muffler loud, but its stereo system louder. That part, of course, an intentional choice. In my neighborhood, most everyone only had so much money for a car, and then they only had so much money to take care of that car when it inevitably began to fail them. But a sound system was coveted. A way to reclaim some small bit of glory amidst the loudly coughing exhaust, or the passenger door that won’t open from the outside, or the window that won’t roll down all the way. Subwoofers encased in a box, weighing down the trunk, a kingdom of sound. People
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