The Stranger in My Mirror

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The Stranger in My Mirror When I was a child, my grandmother used to say, "The border is something people draw on maps. Hunger, hope, and grief don't stop to check passports." I nodded whenever she said it, but I never truly understood. Years later, I found myself standing outside a small grocery shop in Johannesburg, watching a crowd shout at a man with a Zimbabwean accent. They called him names. They told him to go home. Some threw stones. I stood there and did nothing. In my mind, I justified it. They're taking jobs. They're making life harder. They don't belong here. I was Black. I was African. Yet somehow, I believed another Black African was less deserving than I was because he had crossed a border. A week later, load shedding hit our neighborhood. The only shop still open was the same Zimbabwean man's store. I went in because I needed bread. He greeted me with a smile. "How are you, brother?" Brother. Not stranger. Not South African. Not c...
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1958 Chevrolet Impala GTA V Mod Looks Spot On, Is a Nightmare to Drive

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22 Aug 2021, 08:06 UTC · 
1958 is the year that brought us the Impala nameplate, though at first, it was only offered as a top-of-the-line version of the Bel Air.
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But given its immense success, Chevrolet decided to turn it into a stand-alone series only a year later, therefore giving birth to a model that eventually managed to become the first car in the United States to sell more than 1 million units in just 12 months on the market.

It happened in 1965, the year when the GM brand rolled out the fourth-generation Impala, which itself continued to sell like hotcakes until it started losing ground in the late ‘60s.

But the 1958 Impala still has a well-deserved place in automotive history books, and this is why there are lots of people out there who’d give anything just to be able to drive one.

Needless to say, owning such a beaut isn’t easy, as an example in mint condition is worth a small fortune, but fortunately, you can still hop behind the wheel of a 1958 Impala without paying a single cent thanks to videogames.

Grand Theft Auto V, for example, gives you this opportunity thanks to a recent pack published by modder GreenAid on GTA5-Mods. The 1958 Impala looks spot on, as you can see for yourselves in the gallery here, despite the mod still requiring a series of refinements, including as far as the handling is concerned.

Because yes, handling this original Impala is quite a challenge, yet some see it as a feature, not a bug, since it makes the experience overall more similar to the one you get when driving a classic car that launched no less than 63 years ago.

Other than that, the mod comes with both hardtop and convertible body styles, working lights, and custom colors, though you may want to check out the installation instructions to get them right.
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