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I´ll be turning 60 in a few months. I have had two serious heart attacks, a set of minor strokes and a big one. I can still drive a car, but it´s no fun for any time longer than an hour. I am glad I have a train station within 5 minutes. The train takes me to Hamburg in a time I´ll never be able to make with a car. The return ticket costs less than the parking fee, and if I add a couple of Euros, I can even take my wife along [swg] If I book a long distance ticket ahead of time, I can get them at rock bottom prices. In most cases I do know way ahead of time that I will be traveling. OK, I used to be a car nut. My company cars were usually BMW 7 series or, correspondingly Mercedes S-class. My midlife crisis car was a Porsche 911 Carrera Turbo S, in which you could feel a stamp posted to the road when you ran over it. I don´t need all of that any longer. Now we have a Volkswagen up!, a car so small it is not sold in the US. I am happy to be alive, I am happy I can do a tiny bit of MRRing on my shoestring budget and I am happy that for 32 years  now I am married to a loving wife who cares for and about me!
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