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The Tracker In My Car Was Pointing The Wrong Way

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The alert came up while I was sitting at a red light, eating a gas-station granola bar: "Unknown tracker detected moving with you."

I almost dismissed it. My phone was always crying wolf about something. But the little map on the screen showed a tiny dot riding along beside my own, and the dot had been with me, it said, for the last six days.

I am not a paranoid person. I am the woman who leaves her doors unlocked and her keys in the bowl by the door. But something about that sentence, moving with you, made the hair on my arms stand up. I pulled into a grocery store lot, put the car in park, and started feeling under the seats.

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