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The author rejects Beetle nostalgia and laments the broader nostalgia trend. He recalls a rough 1967 Pontiac LeMans experience, contrasts past comfort with present disorder, and argues that longing reflects desire for known certainty rather than actual better days. He ends noting the present, with change and progress, as the real good old days.
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