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I had a French pen friend in the UK in the 1950's.
I moved to 17th century French speaking Quebec in 1968 but couldn't master the Quebecoise with my high school French.
In 1970 we bought a Renault 16 and my wife and I traveled all over Europe for 5 months - Renault "diamonds" were everywhere.
Kept the R16 till 1982 when it was "traded" for the Le Car (R5) which we kept for about 2/3 years.
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