WHY THIS “FOREIGN” FRENCH DESERT TRUCK BECAME THE MODERN SAS PATROL VEHICLE BRITAIN NEVER BUILT –  Hw

In 1996, at Sterling Lines in Hereford, England, a convoy of flatbed transporters passed through layers of razor wire and surveillance cameras before entering one of Britain’s most secret military facilities. The vehicles halted inside the motor pool of 22 Special Air Service. Ground crews removed the securing chains and lowered the loading ramps.

One after another, 20 trucks rolled down onto the concrete surface. They were large 4×4 vehicles with open tops, broad steel cargo platforms, generous ground clearance, and twin oversized fuel tanks mounted beneath the frame. Their paint was desert yellow. No British Army registration numbers appeared on them. No badge from a British manufacturer could be found.

These trucks came from France. For a regiment whose origin story centers on a lone British officer crossing the Libyan desert in a captured Jeep during 1942, the decision to purchase 20 French trucks represented something few were willing to acknowledge openly. Britain had created the Land Rover. Britain pioneered the armed desert patrol vehicle.

Britain shaped the modern concept of special operations mobility from North Africa to Oman and later the Gulf. Yet, it could not produce the vehicle its own special forces required. No domestic manufacturer offered a truck with the endurance, carrying capacity, and mechanical simplicity demanded by the SAS.

Those 20 vehicles would remain in service for more than a decade. Within weeks of the September 11th attacks, they would deploy to Afghanistan. There, they carried fuel, ammunition, and water across the Registan Desert during the largest SAS mission since the Second World War. They filled a capability gap that British industry had left unresolved for three decades.

Their arrival was never celebrated through public announcements or official publicity. The vehicle was designated the AC Mat VLRA. Built by a French company unfamiliar to most British soldiers, became the modern SAS patrol support truck that Britain never managed to build on its own. To understand why the SAS selected a French vehicle in 1996, it is necessary to look back more than 50 years.

The original vision created by David Stirling was straightforward. Small groups of men in fast, lightweight vehicles would travel hundreds of miles behind enemy lines and destroy aircraft before those aircraft could be launched. The machines that enabled this concept were American Willys Jeeps.

They were stripped down to the essentials, armed with twin Vickers K machine guns, and loaded with enough fuel, water, and ammunition to sustain independent desert operations for several days. The concept proved itself at Sidi Haneish Airfield on the 26th of July, 1942. 18 SAS Jeeps drove directly onto a Luftwaffe landing ground and destroyed 37 Axis aircraft during a single attack.

Yet, the Jeep had limits. As the SAS evolved through the decades serving in North Africa, Oman, Borneo, and later during the Gulf War of 1991, the same challenge repeatedly appeared. Whether the combat vehicle was a Willys Jeep, a Pink Panther Land Rover, or a Land Rover 110 Desert Patrol Vehicle, it could transport weapons, crew members, and enough fuel to reach an objective.

What it could not carry was the large reserve of ammunition, water, food, and [snorts] additional fuel needed to keep an entire patrol column operating across hundreds of miles of desert for days without external support. The solution was the so-called mothership. This was a larger vehicle, lightly armed or sometimes completely unarmed, moving within the center of the formation, and carrying the supplies that the combat vehicles lacked room to transport.

Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the SAS relied on Mercedes-Benz Unimog 1100 trucks for this task. They were German vehicles, dependable and durable, but increasingly outdated and mechanically complicated. By the middle of the 1990s, those Unimogs were reaching the end of their useful lives, and the SAS mobility troop required a replacement.

The problem was simple. Britain did not manufacture a suitable alternative. The Land Rover 130 chassis lacked both the payload capacity and operational range. The Bedford General Service Truck was too heavy and too slow for special operations patrol formations. No British company produced a purpose-designed long-range desert logistics vehicle capable of combining endurance, simplicity, and carrying power in the way the mission required. France did.

ACMAT, an abbreviation for Atelier de Construction Mecanique de l’Atlantique, had been producing desert trucks in Saint Nazaire since 1967. The company was established by Paul Lohr. His father, Rene Lohr, had spent many years developing all-terrain vehicles for French colonial forces operating throughout North Africa and the Sahel.

The VLRA was engineered specifically for the environments in which the SAS operated. Soft sand, extreme temperatures, limited infrastructure, supply routes measured not in hours but in days. When British planners begin searching for a replacement vehicle, the French Foreign Legion had already spent 25 years proving the design in continuous desert campaigns across Chad, Djibouti, and the Central African Republic.

The truck itself embodied purposeful simplicity. Its configuration used a conventional bonneted 4×4 layout. Power came from a Perkins six-cylinder turbo diesel engine generating 145 horsepower at 2,600 revolutions per minute. A five-speed synchronized transmission worked together with a two-speed transfer case, while both axles were equipped with locking differentials.

Fuel capacity was substantial. Two 180-liter tanks provided an operational reach of 1,200 km using onboard fuel alone. With supplementary fuel storage, that distance could be increased to 1,600 km. Carrying capacity was equally impressive. Standard payload reached two and one-half tons. In the Commando version, payload increased to four and one-half tons.

Gross vehicle weight stood at 7.5 tons, all mounted on a chassis measuring only 5.9 m in length. Maximum road speed reached 100 km/h. Fording depth was 0.9 m. The truck rode on Michelin run-flat tires capable of continuing for 48 km at 48 km/h even after sustaining damage. According to Army Technology, weapon mounts could be configured for a 7.

62 mm general purpose machine gun on a swivel position, a 12.7 mm M2 Browning installed on a ring mount, and later Commando variants could also carry a 40 mm automatic grenade launcher, as well as Milan anti-tank guided missiles. According to Jane’s International Defense Review, the British Army placed an order in 1996 for 20 VLRA 4×4 TPK 420 STL 2 vehicles.

Their role was to support motorized patrol operations conducted by the Special Air Service. The procurement was small enough to avoid major political attention. It was also discreet enough that no public controversy emerged afterward. In November of 2001, southern Afghanistan became the stage for the truck’s most significant SAS deployment.

7 weeks after the September 11th attacks, the SAS prepared for its largest single operation since the Second World War. The objective was a heavily defended Al-Qaeda command center and opium storage complex located roughly 250 mi southwest of Kandahar. The site sat deep inside the Registan desert near the Pakistani border.

The mission carried the code name Operation Trent. A and G squadrons from 22 SAS assembled a combat column of approximately 120 personnel and 36 vehicles. The strike force centered on Land Rover 110 desert patrol vehicles. These famous pinkies carried .50 caliber M2 heavy machine guns, Mark 19 40 mm grenade launchers, and 7.

62 mm general purpose machine guns. Even so, the pinkies could not transport enough fuel, water, and ammunition to support a multi-day mission across open desert terrain hundreds of miles away from friendly positions. The challenge created the perfect role for the VLRA. Several Alvis Acmat trucks moved within the center of the formation.

They carried reserve ammunition, fuel containers, water supplies, and medical equipment. They formed the logistical backbone of the entire force. Without those trucks, the pinkies could neither reach the objective nor return safely. Without them, Operation Trent could not have taken place. According to accounts assembled from multiple publicly available sources, including defense correspondent Mark Nicol, the operation opened with a pathfinder insertion using a HALO parachute drop.

It marked the first wartime high altitude low opening jump in SAS history. The pathfinder team prepared a landing strip measuring 900 ft across the desert floor. Six RC-130 Hercules transport aircraft then landed directly on the desert surface. Vehicles were driven off the ramps and organized into formation.

Under cover of darkness, the column advanced toward the target. During the approach, one Pinky was lost because of engine failure. The remaining vehicles continued forward. The assault began in full daylight. A firefight lasting 4 hours followed. Approximately 1 hour of American close air support assisted the operation. SAS casualties totaled four wounded personnel and no fatalities.

Enemy losses were estimated between 18 and 73, depending on the source consulted. The compound at just produced laptops, documents, and intelligence materials that supported coalition targeting efforts for many months afterward. For actions during Operation Trent, personnel received two conspicuous gallantry crosses, one distinguished service order, two military crosses, and several mentions in dispatches.

It became the most highly decorated SAS operation in decades. At the center of the formation, carrying the fuel, ammunition, water, and supplies that made the mission possible, were the French-built trucks that rarely received public attention in Britain. The Afghanistan deployment was not an isolated episode.

According to the specialist defense reference site Elite UK Forces, the SAS mobility troop had incorporated AS90 trucks into its standard combat column organization throughout the late 1990s. The VLRA’s replaced the aging Unimog fleet and operated alongside the Land Rover 110 desert patrol vehicles. The relationship between the VLRA and the SAS patrol vehicles mirrored an older model from six decades earlier.

During the era of the Long Range Desert Group, Chevrolet 3000 weight trucks supported David Stirling’s armed jeeps. The combat vehicles struck the target. The support trucks kept the force alive. Some accounts indicate that the VLRA may have been tested or temporarily employed during the Gulf War of 1991 when SAS patrols from A and D squadrons penetrated deep into Western Iraq in search of Scud missile launchers.

However, according to Jane’s, the official purchase was not made until 1996. As a result, any operational use during 1991 remains unconfirmed and should be viewed cautiously. The SAS was not alone in placing confidence in this vehicle. The French Foreign Legion had been operating VLRA’s since the late 1960s. Among the earliest formations equipped with the type was the 13th Demi-Brigade stationed in Djibouti.

French forces later employed the vehicle during Operation Manta in Chad in 1983, Operation Epervier beginning in 1986, and Operation Turquoise in Rwanda in 1994. Manufacturer records state that ACMAT had built more than 12,000 vehicles for over 50 nations before the end of the 20th century. The truck quietly adopted by the SAS was already among the most combat tested logistics vehicles in the world.

On paper, the Land Rover 110 Desert Patrol Vehicle attracted far more attention. The Pinky carried heavier armament, it moved more quickly over difficult terrain. Within the regiment, it held a status that no imported truck could ever equal. Yet, the Pinky depended on support. A fully loaded Desert Patrol Vehicle could travel roughly 500 km before requiring additional fuel.

The VLRA could reach 1,600 km. The Pinky transported its crew, weapons, and a limited amount of personal equipment. The VLRA carried 2 and 1/2 tons of supplies in addition to its own personnel. They were never rivals. Each vehicle fulfilled a different requirement within the same operation. Eventually, both were succeeded by a new platform.

That replacement was the Supercat HMT 400, known inside the SAS as Menacity, and across the wider British Army as the Jackal. First entering service with United Kingdom Special Forces around 2003, the HMT 400 combined the combat qualities of the Pinky with much of the carrying ability provided by the VLRA. Unlike its predecessors, it was a British-built design.

The vehicle could mount either a .50 caliber heavy machine gun or 40 mm automatic grenade launcher. It also provided blast protection absent from the Pinkie and offered a maximum road range of 800 km. According to Army Technology, Britain had finally produced a vehicle capable of performing both roles in a single platform. The changeover did not happen overnight.

The final confirmed SAS combat deployment of the Land Rover 110 desert patrol vehicle occurred on the 17th of March 2003 during operations in western Iraq. The ACMAT VLRA’s were gradually withdrawn from service between 2003 and 2008 as more Supercat vehicles entered the fleet. Their departure passed almost unnoticed.

There was no public ceremony, no official announcement, no press campaign. Just as they had arrived quietly at Hereford, they left in the same manner. The VLRA itself continued on. In 2006, ACMAT became part of Renault Trucks Defense. The company adopted the Arquus name in 2018. An updated version known as the VLRA II remains in production today.

According to defense trade sources, total production of all VLRA models has now surpassed 14,000 vehicles across more than 50 countries. Arquus has publicly stated that customers have included French Special Forces, the British SAS, and the Irish Army Ranger Wing. Returned in 1996, Sterling Lines, Hereford, 20 desert yellow trucks stand behind the wire.

They carry no British insignia, no British power plant, no British heritage. By modern standards, they appear modest. They are not heavily armed. They possess no armor protection. There are no [clears throat] electronic countermeasure systems, no satellite communications package, and no blast resistant hull.

In terms of contemporary military technology, they belong to a different generation and a different nation. But, they performed the task required of them. They worked in the Registan desert when 120 men needed to reach a compound located 250 miles from the nearest friendly base, they operated within the largest SAS combat column assembled since the Second World War.

They succeeded because they carried loads the Pinkie could not transport. They sustained operations beyond the capability of the aging Unimog. They continued moving in conditions that would challenge more complicated machines. The SAS built its reputation on practicality. Whatever functioned was used regardless of origin.

American Jeeps in 1942, German Unimogs in 1991, French trucks in 2001. The nation represented on the hood was never the deciding factor. The mission was that approach defined the regiment then and it continues to define it today. If you enjoyed this story and want more detailed military history, special operation stories, and lesser known military vehicles, be sure to follow for the next episode.

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QQ4 Bob Dylan and Keith Richards have been close friends for nearly 40 years. The friendship began on a live television program in November of 1986 in the 11 seconds after Bob Dylan called Keith Richards music derivative on camera. Keith Richard’s response to that assessment, one sentence said without anger, without performance, with the specific directness of a man who has nothing to prove and knows it made Bob Dylan laugh.

Then made Bob Dylan go quiet. then made Bob Dylan say two words that people who know Bob Dylan say he almost never said to anyone. This is the story of those 11 seconds and the 40 years that followed them. The program was a live music interview special broadcast on an American network on the evening of November 3rd, 1986. The format was simple.

Two musicians, a host, an hour of conversation about music and the state of it. The producers had assembled the pairing of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards with the specific calculation of television producers who understand that two people with equally strong and potentially incompatible views about what music is and what it should do will produce better television than two people who agree about everything.

The calculation was correct, though not in the way the producers had anticipated. Bob Dylan was 45 years old in November of 1986. Bob Dylan had released Empire Burlesque the previous year and had been on the road for most of the intervening period as part of the True Confessions tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Bob Dylan was in November of 1986 in one of the most prolific and restless phases of a career that had consisted almost entirely of prolific and restless phases. A career that had moved through folk, rock, country, gospel, and back again, that had been declared finished at least six times by the music press, and at each time continued with the serene indifference of a river to the opinions of people standing on its banks.

Bob Dylan had been redefining what music could be. Since 1962, Bob Dylan had invented and reinvented himself so many times that reinvention had become his defining characteristic, not in the superficial sense of a performer changing costumes, but in the deeper sense of a musician who had never allowed his work to settle into a form that could be anticipated or categorized from the outside.

Bob Dylan understood influence and originality and the relationship between them better than almost anyone alive in 1986. Bob Dylan had spent 24 years thinking carefully and specifically about where music came from and where music was going and what it meant that those two things were always in constant conversation with each other.

Keith Richards was 42 years old in November of 1986. Keith Richards had been playing guitar professionally since 1962. Keith Richards had built a career on a foundation of American blues and rhythm and blues. A foundation that Keith Richards had studied with the systematic devotion of someone who understood that the tradition he was building on was not incidental to the music he was making, but essential to it.

that you could not understand what Keith Richards did without understanding where Keith Richards had come from and what Keith Richards had been listening to since he was a teenager in Dartford with American Import Records and a secondhand guitar and no teacher except the recordings themselves. Keith Richards had never pretended otherwise. Keith Richards had in fact spent considerable energy across his career making the lineage explicit, naming the artists, citing the recordings, insisting on the acknowledgement of influence that the mainstream music

industry had a long history of suppressing or ignoring or crediting to the wrong people. If anything, Keith Richards was more transparent about his sources than most musicians of his generation. Keith Richards had always said openly that the Rolling Stones came directly from the blues, that Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson and the specific tradition of the Mississippi Delta were not background influences, but foundational ones.

The music Keith Richards made was in direct and sustained conversation with that tradition, something Keith Richards considered not a limitation, but a responsibility and a form of respect. The interview had been running for 8 minutes when the host asked Bob Dylan about the current state of rock and roll.

Bob Dylan answered with the density and the indirection that characterized Bob Dylan’s responses to direct questions, turning the question over, approaching it from an unexpected angle, finding his way to what he actually thought through a series of observations that moved like a river rather than a road. Bob Dylan was not a straightforward interview subject.

Bob Dylan had been asked about rock and roll in hundreds of interviews across 24 years and had developed the habit of treating the question as an invitation to think out loud rather than a request for a prepared position. The producer Gerald Sherman said afterward that in the first 8 minutes of the interview, he had been slightly anxious, not because anything was going wrong, but because nothing was going anywhere in particular yet.

The interview had the feeling of two conversations happening simultaneously. Bob Dylan’s internal one and the external one visible to the cameras. And Gerald Sherman was not certain in those first eight minutes that the two conversations would converge into something. Bob Dylan talked about influence. Bob Dylan talked about originality.

Bob Dylan talked about the difference between music that absorbed a tradition and transformed it and music that absorbed a tradition and reproduced it. And then Bob Dylan made his assessment. And then Bob Dylan said with the precision of a man making a musical assessment rather than a personal judgment that the Rolling Stones work, and Bob Dylan was specific, naming Keith Richards as the guitarist whose approach he was discussing was derivative in a way that Bob Dylan found limiting.

Bob Dylan said it without hostility. Bob Dylan said it as a technical observation about the relationship between source material and the work that came from it. Bob Dylan said that Keith Richards played the blues the way the blues had already been played, rather than using the blues as a starting point for something that had not yet been played.

Keith Richards had been listening to this with the specific attention Keith Richards gave to things being said about music by people who knew music. Keith Richards did not interrupt. Keith Richards did not shift in his chair or display any of the visible signals of a person preparing a defensive response. Keith Richards listened to Bob Dylan’s complete observation all the way to its conclusion without interrupting and without displaying any visible signal of preparing a response.

Then Keith Richards said one sentence. The sentence was not a rebuttal. The sentence did not defend Keith Richards music or argue for its originality or challenge Bob Dylan’s characterization of what the blues meant in the context of rock and roll. The sentence was something else entirely, something that required a specific kind of confidence to say.

The confidence of a person who has spent long enough thinking about the same things as the person they are talking to that they can locate the exact point where their thinking diverges and say something useful about that point rather than simply defending their own position. The sentence acknowledged everything Bob Dylan had said, the assessment, the distinction Bob Dylan was drawing, the specific musical concern underlying the observation, and then turned it 90°.

Keith Richards took Bob Dylan’s own framework, the one Bob Dylan had used to analyze Keith Richards relationship to the blues tradition, and applied it back to Bob Dylan’s work with the same precision Bob Dylan had used to apply it to Keith Richards. Spare aimed. The sentence asked Bob Dylan something about Bob Dylan’s own music, about the relationship between Bob Dylan’s sources and Bob Dylan’s output that Bob Dylan had not been asked on television before.

The sentence did not attack. The sentence illuminated. Bob Dylan laughed. The laugh was not the polite laugh of someone responding to a joke. The laugh was the involuntary laugh of someone who has been genuinely surprised. The specific kind of surprise that a person of exceptional intelligence experiences when someone else’s intelligence exceeds their expectations.

Bob Dylan laughed for 4 seconds. Then Bob Dylan stopped laughing. Then Bob Dylan was quiet for 3 seconds in the way that Bob Dylan was quiet when Bob Dylan was thinking rather than performing thought. Then Bob Dylan said, “You’re right.” The producer in the booth, a man named Gerald Sherman, who had been working in television for 14 years, said afterward that in 14 years of live television production, he had never heard Bob Dylan say those two words in a public forum.

Gerald Sherman said he had worked with Bob Dylan on two previous occasions and had observed Bob Dylan in numerous other contexts and that you’re right was not a phrase that Bob Dylan deployed easily or often because Bob Dylan had spent 24 years being right about music in ways that other people eventually caught up with. And the experience of being right ahead of everyone else does not generally produce a man who says you’re right readily when someone else makes a point.

The host of the program, a journalist named Patricia Wells, who had been interviewing musicians for 12 years, said afterward that the 11 seconds between Bob Dylan’s assessment and Bob Dylan saying, “You’re right,” were the most extraordinary 11 seconds of television she had been present for. Patricia Wells said that what she witnessed in those 11 seconds was not a debate or a confrontation or a celebrity exchange of competing opinions.

Patricia Wells said what she witnessed was one musician recognizing another musician as an equal, which was in the specific context of Bob Dylan in 1986, not something that happened in public very often. The interview continued for another 42 minutes after those 11 seconds. The conversation between Bob Dylan and Keith Richards in the remaining 42 minutes was described by everyone who watched it as fundamentally different from the first 8 minutes.

The host, Patricia Wells, who had been conducting music interviews for 12 years and understood the difference between the performance of conversation and actual conversation, said that at approximately the 9-minute mark, something shifted in the studio. That the formal interview, architecture dissolved, and what replaced it was something less structured and more genuine.

Bob Dylan and Keith Richards talked about influence and originality and the blues and what it meant to build on a tradition without being consumed by it. They talked about specific recordings and specific musicians with the specificity of two people who had spent their entire adult lives thinking about these things and rarely found another person who had thought about them with equivalent care.

They talked about where music came from and where music was going and whether those two questions were actually one question or two. Patricia Wells said afterward that she had asked approximately four questions in the remaining 42 minutes because Bob Dylan and Keith Richards did not require questions. They required only a room and a camera and the shared understanding that what they were saying together was worth recording carefully.

She said it was the best interview she had ever conducted and that she had conducted the smallest part of it. After the program, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards were in the corridor outside the studio when the host Patricia Wells passed them. Patricia Wells said she did not stop because she did not want to interrupt.

She observed them for approximately 30 seconds from a distance. She said they were talking with the ease of people who had known each other for years rather than people who had met for the first time 2 hours earlier. She said that something had shifted between them during the broadcast that the broadcast had made permanent rather than temporary.

She continued down the corridor and did not look back. She said in her account of that evening that she had decided in that moment not to interrupt the conversation because some conversations are more valuable than any question a journalist might ask and that the conversation she had observed for 30 seconds in the corridor outside the studio was one of them.

She had been a music journalist for 12 years. She recognized the difference. Bob Dylan and Keith Richards have maintained their friendship across four decades. They have appeared together at various events, most significantly at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, where people who were present described them as inseparable for most of the evening, occupying the same corner of the backstage area and talking with the concentrated attention of people who only have a limited amount of time together and intend to use it

well. Bob Dylan has spoken about Keith Richards in interviews with the specific thoughtful care that Bob Dylan reserves for musicians whose work Bob Dylan considers genuinely important rather than merely culturally prominent. Keith Richards has spoken about Bob Dylan in similar terms with the specific respect of someone who recognizes in another person a commitment to music that goes deeper than career.

Neither Bob Dylan nor Keith Richards has made a public statement specifically about how the friendship began or about the November 1986 interview. Bob Dylan has not mentioned the 11 seconds. Keith Richards has not mentioned the sentence. The interview exists in the archive. The 11 seconds are there. The laugh is there. The two words are there.

What is also there for anyone who watches the interview from its beginning and pays attention to the shift that happens at the 9-minute mark is the specific moment when two people who thought they were appearing on a television program discovered they were actually talking to each other. What Keith Richards said in that one sentence has never been officially reported.

The people who were in the studio that evening, Gerald Sherman, Patricia Wells, the floor crew, the two camera operators, the makeup artist who was watching from the side of the set, have described the sentence in consistent terms. They have described its effect. They have described Bob Dylan’s laugh and Bob Dylan’s silence and Bob Dylan’s two words.

They have not repeated the sentence itself in the specific understanding that the sentence was said between two musicians on a television program and that its power resided in the specific context of that exchange and would not survive removal from it intact. What can be said is this. Keith Richards said something to Bob Dylan about Bob Dylan’s music that used Bob Dylan’s own observation about Keith Richards as its starting point and arrived somewhere that Bob Dylan had not anticipated.

Keith Richards turned Bob Dylan’s assessment 90° and showed Bob Dylan something about the music they had both spent their lives making that Bob Dylan recognized immediately as true. And Bob Dylan said, “You’re right.” Two words said by Bob Dylan in public on live television in 1986 to Keith Richards in response to a single sentence Keith Richards had said about music.

Two words that Gerald Sherman, who had worked with Bob Dylan on two previous occasions, said he had never heard Bob Dylan say in a public forum. Two words that Patricia Wells, who had been interviewing musicians for 12 years, said were the most significant two words she had heard in those 12 years. Not because of their content, but because of who said them and what it cost to say them and what it meant that Keith Richards had produced them in 11 seconds from a conversation that began with Bob Dylan calling Keith Richards’s music derivative. And Keith Richards and

Bob Dylan have been close friends for nearly 40 years. The sentence did its work in 11 seconds on the evening of November 3rd, 1986. The work has been ongoing ever since. If this story moved you, subscribe and leave a comment below. Have you ever said something to someone that turned a potential disagreement into an unexpected and lasting connection? Tell us about it in the comments below.

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