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- Danny Bell: I used to take your mother for driving practice.
- Sydia Bell: Mm-hmm, because she did not know how to drive!
- And I remember one day, we was in this park,
and your mother had said to me,
"I'm nervous. Y'all get out the car."
- What car was this?
- Oh, that was my black Maxima.
- Sydia: Talk about it! - Danny: Oh, Man.
That was like my love child.
- Sydia: Hello! Was it paid off too?
- Danny: It was paid off. [both laughing]
- All right, so she's driving, and, to my recollection,
she was doing a really good job.
- She was.
Until I told her, "I want you to park the car."
I stood in front of the car to guide her,
and I kept pulling my hands towards me
and said, "Come on, come on."
And for some reason, she stepped on the gas, and the car flew.
I had to jump out of the way! - Mm-hmm.
- And the car went over the embankment into the water,
flipped upside down.
- And me, and you, and the dog. - The dog.
- Sydia: Roxanna. - Danny: Yeah.
- Looking down. - I could not believe this happened.
- What just happened?
- I ran down the hill, and I went into the water,
and I couldn't see nothing. - Mm-hmm.
- But I knew she was in there.
- Sydia: And I remember these two women came up
and they called 911 and stuff.
Do you remember that?
- Danny: I remember the ambulance and the police.
- And I want to say even a helicopter!
- Yeah.
The feeling was, "It's too late. She's gone."
Until I pushed her up to the top of the car,
they thought she was dead.
- I'm left with this memory
of my dad coming out of the water,
like, literally holding my mom.
And saving her-- against all odds.
- Mm-hmm.
- That moment waslove embodiedto me.
But what I also remember
is you going, "Oh, I saved her, but Lord, my car."
- Yeah... [laughing] - My car!"
- I had just shined my car up.
It was-- it was beautiful.
And she said, "I ain't never going to touch a car again."
Until this day, she just sits in the passenger seat
and complains about,
"Turn over there, slow down."
- Truth, truth, truth.
- Everything.
- That's a Bell family story.
- Yes, it is.
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