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With a muttered curse and a hard tug on the wheel, I straightened out my car, escaping a yawning ditch by inches, and rove on through the blinding rain. Skidding and lurching from side to side on a water-soaked clay road, I peered through the mud-spattered windshield hoping that my destination would soon come into view. Finally, when it seemed that I could not drive another mile, the lights of the city appeared in the distance, blinking a welcome to me. A hot bath, a warm meal, a soft bed and that feeling of peace and contentment that comes after