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"When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn't already ..." — Giles Coren

When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn't already do it - for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren't much good at it either.
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