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When Camille Valencia called Kars4Kids to donate her car<\/a>, she cried and told our service representative that she didn\u2019t know how she\u2019d do it: donate her car. But after the fact, as our rep put it, \u201cShe seems to be very happy she did!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camille had dashed off a note to the customer service rep thanking Kars4Kids for the sensitive handling of a task that was so difficult for this California donor. \u201cYour driver Joaquin was the kindest, loveliest, most professional young man. I don\u2019t know how he did it but he got my sweet most loved car in the world on the truck to transport her back to, I believe he said to San Diego. In any event, I believe I sent \u2018Grace\u2019 away in good hands!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Joaquin
Joaquin getting Grace ready for towing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We wanted to hear more about Grace, so we wrote to Camille, who was happy to oblige, \u201cDid I mention that often when we spoke about Grace, people thought she was a family member? When they found out she was our car \u2026 it was difficult for them to understand our (my) attachment!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We moved beyond email and had a 20-minute conversation. Here\u2019s what Camille had to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe met Grace in 2001, when my daughter Erica was in recovery. She\u2019d gotten a job and was doing really well and we were so very, very excited for her and proud that her recovery was going well. The lady she was working for offered her this little Beretta, she paid $1000 for her and then she had to put another $1000 into her to get her up to speed, to get her working and everything. And that was the beginning of the relationship with that little car. What started it was my daughter\u2019s recovery and getting back on her feet. She was able to get insurance for [Grace], and she was working two jobs and doing so well. It was a lot but it was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of Erica\u2019s difficulties, her husband and daughter had moved out of their home in Covina, California, to Las Vegas. That meant that Erica was living on her own. And if she wanted to see her young daughter she had no choice but to make the long, round-trip journey, between Covina and Las Vegas, on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Covina To Las Vegas And Back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow mind you,\u201d Camille continued, \u201cGrace was a 1992 Beretta, and she was making little trips back and forth to Las Vegas. And I\u2019m saying, \u2018What?? This little car is going back and forth to Las Vegas? Are you kidding me?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was such an amazing little car,\u201d said Camille with a wistful tone, remembering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually Camille\u2019s daughter Erica moved to Las Vegas, having reconciled with her husband. Grace had made what was seemingly her final trip between the two cities. Then Camille\u2019s son in-law bought Erica another car and they didn\u2019t really need Grace anymore. Camille and her brother Eddie, on the other hand, had no car at the time, so Erica and her husband decided to drive Grace back to California, one last time, to give the car to these two siblings, \u201cAnd that was the beginning of our relationship with Grace,\u201d said Camille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camille and Eddie took Grace to their mechanic, who lived down the street. \u201cHe was an angel. He got her working well. At that age, her air conditioning was making icicles of everybody in the car. But I could have raced her at NASCAR. She was awesome. She was such a bomb of a little car. I mean absolutely amazing<\/em>. We just fell in love with her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Was There<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019d take us to church,\u201d here Camille chokes up, \u201cevery week. And no matter what we had to do, where we had to go, Grace was there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way Grace came by her name was like the way the car came into their lives, seemingly out of nowhere, a gift. \u201cWhen we first got her,\u201d said Camille, \u201cI called her Erica after my daughter. But one day I\u2019m standing in my kitchen, and I\u2019m looking at her sitting in the driveway, and this voice just said, \u2018Grace.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I thought, \u2018Wow. That is an awesome name<\/em>!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I called my daughter and I said, \u2018Honey, her name\u2019s not Erica anymore. Her name is Grace.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning Of The End: A Gas Leak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Camille and Grace were, in a manner of speaking, inseparable. \u201cShe took us to the beach and San Diego and everywhere and she was just an awesome little car,\u201d but at some point, Grace began to show her age. \u201cWe thought she was going to last forever,\u201d said Camille, \u201cwhich is kind of ridiculous. But anyway we were getting ready to get her smogged<\/a> when they found a gas leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNobody knew where it was coming from, or what was going on. It was amazing to me that nobody knew what the problem was. We had so many people looking at her. But it just became a danger. I would open up the trunk and I could smell the gasoline,\u201d said Camille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I said, \u2018Fine,\u2019 and we just let her sit in the carport where she was. And that\u2019s where she stayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the thing about Grace,\u201d continued Camille, \u201cis that because she had been such a help to my daughter during her recovery, going back and forth to Las Vegas, and ultimately taking her back to her family for good, and then coming to be with us for such a long time, when I think about her, I just didn\u2019t want to let her go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI Was Not Going To Sell Her For Parts.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we had had our own home and a garage, she\u2019d still be in the garage right now. I was not going to sell her for parts. And our mechanic didn\u2019t want to work on her anymore because she was so old,\u201d said Camille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that hurt: that her faithful neighbor and mechanic now refused to work on Grace. But Camille figured that if he <\/em>wasn\u2019t going to work on Grace, she wasn\u2019t going to find anyone else to do so, either. So Camille parked Grace in the carport and there she stayed. \u201cIt was too sad to think of giving her away. It took me nine years to give her up,\u201d said Camille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point, Camille did look into giving the car to PBS (Public Broadcasting System). But the process seemed too complicated, long and drawn out. \u201cThen I saw the advertisements for Kars4Kids, and I thought, \u2018Well, you know that would be better, I think. Better to donate her than to make any money off her.\u2019 It wouldn\u2019t have seemed right,\u201d said Camille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kars4Kids To The Rescue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So what was it like, donating Grace to Kars4Kids? We\u2019ll let Camille tell you in her own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe process was just amazing. It was just so easy! It was very, very easy. It was pleasant. Very caring. Because as I said at the beginning, Grace was very special, and they just took the ball and ran with it to help me, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI called on that one day, and already the following morning, Joaquin [Kars4Kids\u2019 local towing partner] called and said, \u2018I can be there in 25 minutes,\u2019 and I said, \u2018What??\u2019 Camille gives a short laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I said, \u2018Okay, great!\u2019 and there he was, in 25 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Grace,
Grace getting ready to leave the carport for good.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Wasn\u2019t That A Little Too<\/em> Fast??<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We wondered out loud: wasn\u2019t that a little too<\/em> fast after all those years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was meant to be: that kind of way, so fast, after so many years of service. And Joaquin was so nice<\/em>! My goodness! It was like we were letting a relative take her away,\u201d said Camille. \u201cHe was so kind and so caring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I were an actor and needed to cry on demand,\u201d said Camille, \u201cGrace would make it happen in a heartbeat. Just thinking about her right now\u2014if I think about her anymore I think I might cry. Grace was, golly, such a help to, I guess, the people who owned her previously; then to my daughter; and us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a way, she reunited Erica with her family,\u201d said Camille. \u201cIt was a meant-to-be kind of thing. We call it a \u2018God shot.\u2019 Because everything lined up, all the dominoes, no problems ever, no overheating on her trips to Vegas, and you know, that\u2019s not an easy drive out there, and she was just such a dear, dear little car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrace Became A Person To Me.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut Grace became a person to me! And we had so much fun. Like I said, \u2018Man, she could go fast.\u2019 I would take her out and just let her loose and she and I would go driving like, \u2018Bam!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was good,\u201d said Camille. \u201cWe loved her. And in fact with our new car, you know, they\u2019re all females, and I said to my brother, thinking about how to name her, \u2018I don\u2019t know,\u2019 and one of my girls suggested, \u2018Angel\u2019 and then somebody said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you just call her \u201cGrace?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are so many things I could say about her,\u201d said Camille. \u201cI just can\u2019t express the gratitude in words. For my daughter, and what it meant to her, and how it helped her. We had Camille working for nine years, a car made in 1992, mind you. And then we had her for another nine years, sitting in the carport from 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe Was Just An Awesome Little Car.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was so <\/em>good,\u201d said Camille. \u201cShe brought us so much happiness, so much love, so much positivity, it was just amazing. She was just an awesome little car. I will just never forget her. She\u2019s just so beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was just amazing. A miracle, you know? She was just a lovely, lovely little car,\u201d said Camille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We felt it. We understood that Grace was something special. But Camille wasn\u2019t finished explaining things. She wanted us to understand the serendipity of how the donation process fit into the story of Grace. \u201cIt was an amazing thing that it was Kars4Kids, because I had seen the ads, driving down the highway, and heard the commercials on television, but it was just so,\u201d here Camille paused, searching for the words, \u201cJoaquin really just kind of, golly<\/em>! He was just such an exceptional young man. Because not too many people would take what I said about Grace that seriously. And he was very, very kind, very gracious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt good<\/em>. I mean I was crying, I\u2019m crying now, but I felt good about it. It was meant to be that way. And I was so very grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Donate?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Asked why she decided to donate, rather than sell Grace, Camille said, \u201cThe thing is, people would say you could get money for Grace, because, you know, she had a brand new steering wheel in there, she had brand new tires, and all this stuff, and you could do that, sell a car for parts. But I didn\u2019t want to because she wasn\u2019t that for us. I mean, she was our Grace!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah. We know. You can\u2019t put a monetary value on a family member, can\u2019t sell your best friend. That\u2019s just not the way it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Grace is a story of boundless giving. And Grace will continue to give. Perhaps the proceeds of the donation<\/a> process will help send an inner city child who has never seen the country, to summer camp, or underwrite some tutoring sessions for a child who is struggling in her studies. We don\u2019t know the end of the story, but we do know that the essence of Grace is out there, continuing to bring positive energy and goodness into this sometimes crazy world in which we live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodness exists. The story of Grace bears witness to that. And we are grateful to have played a part in her never-ending circle of kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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