Got the car back; looks great. Ended up being $2,770 of which I paid $100, although I paid the body shop extra out of pocket to polish out all the paint swirls and massage out a door ding. The car looks brand new.
For those posters interested in more detail on how it happened, I live in an all green community that prides itself on being surrounded by 923 acres of natural woodland where deer, fox and other animals roam freely. The only way to access the homes is to drive a 1.8 mile winding two lane road that is surrounded on both sides by clusters of trees. In total darkness I had just turned onto the road and began to accelerate when I guess the growl of my engine startled a deer grazing in a thicket to my right. The first sign I had that anything was wrong was when the deer's head appeared where my right fender and passenger door meet. By the time I got out of the car to look at the damage the deer had run off, so I don't know what happened to the deer. That's how it happened.
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