For most, getting your first car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Getting a car did         this for me, and it also brought my best friend and me     . But then it tore us apart.
My best friend lives three minutes from my      . Since her       is in late summer, seven months behind mine, I basically became her       when I turned 16 in December.
And so I       her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream        , went shopping and to the movies ---- all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so        that she gave me a        to her house.
A week after I got my license，she was with me          I had my first accident. She was there and       me and we kept it a       , since I didn’t want people to      . From then on, through thick and thin, it was just me, my car and my best friend.
High school is a time of      , but I couldn’t       for a long time         we became so distant(疏远) after being so close. My friend waited three months after her birthday to get her dream car：a green 2004 Beetle. With its        , the passenger seat of my car became      . Our car trips became less frequent       I didn’t even drive down her street.
It’s funny how a car can change a relationship so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but once she did, I       it. I wanted her friendship back, even if it couldn’t be the same.

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