Soon Dutcher was in his car following the two ladies when the siren of a police car was in the rearview mirror.

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Like trying to steer a car by looking in the rearview mirror, they hold hearings to figure out what went wrong and then write new laws based on old facts.

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In what she now realizes was an ironic moment, Nyad says, she looked into the rearview mirror in her car and decided that might not be entirely true.

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The woman whom the noise of the Dodge always brought out stared stonily, continuing to stand there when the car went on, a still image in the rearview mirror.

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The car behind me screeches and I see it swerving in the rearview mirror, but it drives over the bundle, too.

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