It was just the two of us in the car, and when we waited or were stopped, we chatted a bit. On the day of the parade, Jessica sat on the shelf behind the seats and waved as I drove as slowly as I could at the tail of the parade. She was from neighboring Palo Alto, so everyone welcomed this local success story. The Grand Marshal that year was Jessica Yu, the filmmaker who had won the academy award for best documentary the previous year. In 1998 The car was still fairly new to me and I was eager to show it off, so when I was asked if I wanted to drive the Grand Marshal vehicle in the Mountain View Chinese New Year Parade, I jumped at the chance. I used to drive a gorgeous, spunky little burgundy Miata (the car salesman called the color ‘merlot’) that I adored.
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