But beyond compensation and job security there are lots of other reasons why mommas should encourage their babies to grow up to be salesmen.

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He stomped the accelerator and raced from ditch to ditch, his winch cable whining, yellow lights spinning, mommas crying, ambulances screaming away or, if it was a bad one, not screaming at all.

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