I originally debated writing this one down,

Because it only involved two items,

But decided to anyway due to their nature:

Cruising on the 52

An interesting plate passed --- ALYESHA

A minute later,

Merging onto 5 North

Right behind a VW beetle,

The bug's plate got my attention --- ALYSSAF

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I spent a lot of time thinking of a title for this recording

After rejecting a few ideas I hit on using "echo" to reflect the recurrence

"Echosphere" seemed nice, though not as relevant to the subject matter as I'd like

Settling on that title for the time being, I had to come up with a filename

Filenames are restricted to a maximum of eight letters, so I tried a few out

"Echosphere" is too long, so "eko" something might work, but even "ekosphere" won't fit

I decided "esphere" would capture the essence for future reference

Then I typed it in and looked at what I had typed -- ESP here!

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It's 11 days later

And the third shoe has finally dropped ---

Cruising on the 52

A minute before it joins 5 North,

A VW Rabbit with

An interesting plate

Has just passed --- ELISHA