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“I dropped my car off. I gave the mechanic my number. He called my boyfriend, who is not on the paperwork, to give me the estimate. He did not think this was strange. My boyfriend told me later that the guy said, well I figured she’d want the real number to come from you. My boyfriend is twenty-four years old and cannot change a tire.”