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LETTERS: Deplorable

An open letter:

Evil begets evil and has a domino effect.

According to a master mechanic at Wichita, a junk engine was put into my Oldsmobile; when I assumed it was a "rebuilt and overhauled" engine.

He also reported that it was a poor job of installation.

He was proven to be right. I've had continual breakdowns in the past six months of driving it. I've had to be towed four times.

I went for months without transportation while he had it in his shop at Hillsboro.

It is awful to be "broken down" on a highway. It made me suffer a lot. These are the repercussions.

1.) I'm stranded in the country.

2.) I have a big debt on the engine job that can only be paid off "with a job."

3.) Schools would use me as a substitute teacher, but I'm unable to get to area schools.

4.) No plumbing: I had to choose. No way to do laundry or bathe or get drinking water.

5.) No Christmas. I had to cancel a dinner invitation in Salina. My two sons in Wichita suffer from a disorder and don't have cars. They depend on me to bring their Christmas dinner and gifts.

6.) It's humiliating to write this and give it to the Marion County Record. I have pride and am self sufficient.

I have saved a historical landmark (the former county farm).

I need your help, good people of Marion County. I can't do it alone anymore.

I'm asking that the honest people of the area compel the mechanic (at Hillsboro) to return my money so another engine can be installed. Then I could be employed again.

Nancy Marr

Rural Marion

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