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Have you seen Joanne’s mew car yet?

Yeah. It looks good, but she’s had nothing but problems with it.

That’s too bad. It sounds like she got a real lemon.

She sure did! No sooner did she drive it home from the dealer’s than it proved defective and started breaking down.