"What has reached you on Tuesday is just the first drop of rain, and a first phase, for by God's will, after this we will have our revenge, " the statement added.

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We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.

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