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Three Strangers Challenged Me to Slow Down

One of them was dead

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Rick Lewis
Jul 20, 2025
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I was trying to get across town in the middle of heavy rush-hour traffic when the vehicles in front of me came to a full stop.

A long, defiant red light turned momentarily green in the distance before quickly cycling back to yellow, and then again to red, where it remained for a far longer time than the green signal that…

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