I'd like to cover a used car salesman in Ashland called Top Quality Motors. The dealership is very small, about 20 sales per month. The dealer, Chris, goes to auto auctions about once per month, where the used car dealers from the area gather to bid on cars, sort of like a cattle auction. This will be part of the idea that some people depend on cars for their survival, not just for transportation. Also, there's Julie, who loves the car business and came back immediately after she left the business to become a dietary advisor at the area nursing home. These people love cars and depend on them for their livelihood.

If this doesn't seem to work out, I'd like to cover a car personality that everybody knows. Maybe someone like Joe Machens. Visually, this story would challenge me the most. But I feel as though I'm most interested in a smaller dealership.

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Assignment one - The sequence

Brandy Mullen and her daughter Brooke indulge in some birthday cake in the basement of the Harrisburg Baptist Church on Jan. 20, 2007. The Mullen's have lived in Harrisburg for four and a half years. "It's a small community, and everybody knows everybody," Brandy Mullen said.