"They kept asking me what kind of vehicle I would want," recalled Jill Pryor. "I told them if it had wheels and a steering wheel, it would be just fine. It could have been dooty green, and I still would have been ecstatic." Pryor is beneficiary of the kindness of CARS of Southern Indiana, an organization that provides vehicles to disadvantaged women trying to catch a break. In Pryor's case, she's working her way toward a pharmacy technology degree and has two young children. What'd she score? a '99 Oldsmobile Silhoutte. And it wasn't even dooty green. [News and Tribune]

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