Number One Son had been taking things apart and putting them back together since, at age six, he first disassembled and reassembled (mostly) an old lawn mower I had put out at the curb for garbage pickup.

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The old man was still searching in the reeds when the lights of a pickup materialized at the canal headworks and bounced wildly down the road.

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Mr. Berti, 54 years old, said all the stores along the main street of Davis were closed Tuesday and only pickup trucks with four-wheel drive were braving secondary roads.

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