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		skosch on April 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: At 88, doctor pursues a long-ignored treatment for... OP simply mis-parsed the last "it" of the sentence to refer to the starter motor, when the author intended for it to refer to the car.

smallnamespace on April 8, 2018 [–]

That's a strange mis-parse since the rule is that pronouns refer to their closest reasonable antecedent (in this case 'car' is closest to 'it').

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