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Low life

Rolling back the years in a stretched Hummer

The driver appeared. He wasn't going to give us any booze, he said, because our young ladies were out of control

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

My first ride in a stretch Hummer. I haven’t lived, I now realise. The prodigious, ridiculous thing, tricked out in multicoloured neon piping, drew up outside the pub where we were getting stoked. I was privileged to be invited by Trev to his niece’s 18th birthday celebration in a nightclub.

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