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<div align="center"><span
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get the overwhelming desire to sit down and write.</b><span style=""><b>..</b>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="BYLINE"
style="font-style: italic;">By Jessica Giammalvo Hashim </span><br>
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</span>So, every now and then I get the overwhelming desire to sit
down and write.<span style=""> </span>Usually it’s from something that
I’ve done or read that’s gotten my creative juices flowing, but its always
something random…This time it just so happened to be the Sam Giammalvo’s
website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, that and my inability
to sleep before 2 o’clock in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="">
</span>With not much else to do, I found myself perusing the site –
starting with the “About Us” section, and on through the customer letters
and articles written by Sam, Glenn, and Mark.<span style=""> </span>Odd,
one might think, me being the granddaughter of Sam Giammalvo himself.<span
style=""> </span>What could I possibly read that I don’t already know
about them?<span style=""> </span>But I continued reading just for
the heck of it.<span style=""> </span>Plus, if nothing else the site
does have some pretty classic pictures of everyone, my little <span
class="GramE">8 year old</span> self included.<span style=""> </span><span
class="GramE">I was quickly drawn in by the customer response letters that
have been posted over the years</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style=""></span><span
style=""> </span>Naturally,
being a part of the family, my experience with “The car lot” (as we grew
up calling it) has been quite different then that of your ordinary customer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Or has it<span
class="GramE">?-</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> Nothing beats having (Glenn)
the service manager for your dad.<span style=""> </span>From the time
I turned 16 I’ve been well taken care of – spoiled even – in the car department.<span
style=""> </span>No, that doesn’t mean that I drive around in a flashy,
crazy expensive car, and I didn’t get handed the keys to some new corvette
in a “My Super Sweet 16” TV show – style.<span style=""> </span>But
what I did get was a nice healthy respect for cars and a somewhat decent
understanding of them. (Something that will undoubtedly take me much further
<span class="GramE">down</span> the road of life than a sports car!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In 2005 when I first got my
license I shared my older sister’s 1987 Jeep Cherokee with her that she had
gotten when she first started driving.<span style=""> </span>But it
wasn’t about the year, or the mileage for that matter. . It was, in fact,
quite a bit newer than my dad’s 1984 CJ-7. It was the fact that it ran like
a charm and we had daddy for all the service it could ever need.<span
style=""> </span>Not long after that I got my very own Jeep Cherokee,
and my first part-time job to keep up with the gas and insurance.<span
style=""> </span>Only this time it was a 1997 and felt like the <span
class="SpellE">ritz</span>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I still remember going to the
lot to see it for the first time – shiny dark blue (my favorite color) two-toned
interior, and power locks and windows!!!<span style=""> </span>Of course,
I couldn’t take it home until it got a thorough once over from the shop.
(Like I said, <span class="SpellE">Ive</span> been spoiled)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Jeep needs an oil change? Not
to worry, <span class="GramE">dad always keeps track of the oil & lube</span>
dates and brings it in every few months. And you better believe that each
and every service that’s done gets added to the little history notebook we
keep in the glove box for reference. From funny noises, to the doors that
decided to lock and unlock themselves, dads always right there to fix it
up good as new.<span style=""> </span>Lord only knows how many “jeep
question” phone calls he got while I was in college.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Quite some time has passed since
then – although the Jeep is still up and running good as ever.<span
style=""> </span>The only difference now is the little 2006 Toyota
Corolla I also have thanks to Grandpa Sam and my dad’s wise insistence on
having the patience to wait for just the right car to come along.<span
style=""> </span>Just like the first time, I pulled into the car lot
to see it and felt like the Ritz! Once again my favorite color blue<span
class="GramE">, <span style=""> </span>air</span> conditioning, a key
remote (or “<span class="SpellE">booper</span>” as I like to call it), not
to mention one of the most reliable things on wheels.<span style="">
</span>Yet again my new car got the thorough once over from the boys
before going to its new home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">
I’m living in Virginia now and you can bet that I miss having my dad and
everyone at Giammalvo’s to work on “Baby Beep” and “Sheila”…I guess I can’t
be spoiled all the time.<span style=""> </span>Though you better believe
dad still gets those car question phone calls to this very day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps that’s what got me writing
in the first place.<span style=""> </span>There’s nothing quite like
the feeling knowing your own family is taking care of your car, and not many
people can lay claim to that like I can.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">
Well, at least that’s what I thought…until I started reading customer letters
and uncle Mark’s many articles.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">That’s when it clicked. The
Aha! Moment that I just had to share…everyone CAN feel like that, just like
I can – Giammalvo’s does that for all of its customers.<span style="">
</span>It’s the little sticker on the windshield telling you when to
get an oil change.<span style=""> </span>It’s the post card in the
mail reminding you of the next service that’s needed. It’s the help you get
when you call, and the extra care you get in between the ‘feeling like the
Ritz and taking it home for the very first time.<span style=""> </span>Most
importantly, it’s the good feeling knowing that you can trust our family
to take care of you <u>and</u> your car, just as if it were our very own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">
…OK, so maybe I’m not quite as special as I thought…but I still get
to call him DAD!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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