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In Westways, writer Alison Singh Gee ’86 explores LA’s car culture and how the various vehicles she’s owned have reflected her different stages of life. “In my 20s, I was lonely, alone, unformed, and yearning for my destiny to unfurl,” she writes, but “. . . In my new-old Benz (and oversize sunglasses), however, I was someone extraordinary just waiting to be discovered.”