North Carolina questions woman's 'KUMQUAT' licence plate

(Toronto Star) The name game started with Lori Ann Phillips’ first car, a red Toyota Camry.

A friend in high school said her first set of wheels needed an identity, a moniker to make it unique.

Phillips decided on Peaches.

Between her teens and early 20s — through high school and college in her home state of Pennsylvania — she cycled through two more vehicles, each with their own fruit-themed names.

Mango was a maroon Jeep Wrangler.

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Papaya was a white Ford F-150 truck.

So when it came time to leave her hometown of Wilkes-Barre 12 years ago and venture to North Carolina, Phillips loaded her belongings into a brand new Toyota RAV4 and pondered what tropical fruit she could appropriate next.

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