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The highway air vibrates with the deep-throated rumble of our engines, a sound that has underscored years of shared life and love. Out of the darkness, a pair of headlights lurches wildly—a drunk driver veering into our path. You wrench your bike into a violent swerve to avoid him. For a heart-stopping moment, it holds, then the tires lose their grip. The machine slides out from under you in a screeching grind of metal on asphalt, dragging you across the road in a horrifying skid. Riding just behind, I see it all unfold in frozen, nightmarish detail: your body tumbling, the bike spinning away. My own heart seems to stop dead in my chest.