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a purpose and, above all, a name. I can honestly say that I've talked to my car more than I have most people in my life. Sure, a man talking to his car might be a sign of lunacy, but if I'm a lunatic, at least I'm a lunatic with reliable transportation.

Naming a car just might not be as crazy as you may think. When we bestow a name on something, we form an emotional attachment to that object. Therefore is it so unreasonable to believe that we tend to take better care of something we are attached to, as opposed to something we are not?

Who can forget the movie "Castaway", where Tom Hanks' character, marooned on a deserted island, forms an emotional attachment to a volleyball he names Wilson? Though just a movie, Hanks gives a compelling performance and convinces us that his very character is sustained and, ironically, kept sane by his rather insane attachment to an air-filled rubber ball. Could not the same dynamic exist between man and automobile?

I believe that there is more than just mere luck at play when it comes to Fiona, who is running strong at 250,000 miles. Or Claudia, my beloved 1989 Cavalier Z-24, who departed from this world after 375,000 glorious miles. Maybe it's something that we just can't understand or comprehend. Perhaps the best explanation I can offer is summed up in the words of Shakespeare, when Hamlet says, "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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