Here was the truck tire, here the place where the trail briefly widened, here the place where the trees crossed overhead like reaching for one another.

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Here was the old truck tire.

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But then the first of three miracles happened: A truck's tire burst, forcing it to stop exactly in front of Ferzat.

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To add to her troubles that first night, her fiance, who was following her to New Orleans that morning in a rented truck, had gotten a flat tire outside of Mobile and was stranded on the side of the road.

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We were looking at 90 minutes for a tow truck and then no idea how long to get a replacement tire.

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