Epiphany tonight.

Driving close to 60 down Highway 18, six cars were zippered close to each other as we sped: my red one; and a blue, and a yellow, and another yellow, and another blue, and another red like mine, six cars, two couples each of the primary colors.

I smiled wider and wider as our speed crept up in tandem, over 65, to 68, close to 70, tickling the ribs of 71MPH and making it giggle.

I imagined us accelerating faster and faster, a constant growing velocity moving us down an infinite highway until we reached the speed of light and blended together into a brilliant, bright white ribbon of light, moving at the speed of the universe, Tom Petty or Chubawumba or Brian Eno's "Taking Tiger Mountain" or whatever they and I might have been playing on our car stereos left far far behind us as our cranked, bass-heavy speakers exhaled years behind us.

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