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sorry

Jackie this is all so stupid I mean

we're we're not resists we're not even

anything you don't know what the hell we

for or

against well let me tell you

something if I ever ask you to come

someplace with me again I'll know what

I'm doing

okay I need to make love Jackie maybe if

we don't do it now we'll never get a

chance maybe we'll be killed trying to

get home stop it

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I love

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you yeah I want to make love to you I

always

do but this is

crazy it's like it doesn't matter who

it's like I don't matter you're

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just we're not going to have anything

are we

Justin I love you but

but all our

lives it's going to be

like I don't

know

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nothing

is there's going to be something I

promise she not going to be this

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ladies and

gentlemen I have a very special

announcement to make since Congress

established the administrative areas in

1988 there has been little

change but now is the

time for the central administrative area

to take a great hand in its own

future the time to speed the day when

foreign advisers of all kinds will be

able to leave your soil

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ensuring this will be the creation of

the post of governor

general I would like now to present to

you the nominees chosen by your

representatives the Committees of the

legislatur The Advisory committees on

the party Cadre throughout the

area I hope I've remembered to bring

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it I would like to have the nominees

stand as they are called but please hold

your response until they have all been

named Mr Benjamin Trenton from witcho Mr

AA zedo from

Chicago Miss Rose Aller from Grand

Rapids The Honorable William Smith

governor of

Missouri and last but not

least Mr Peter

Bradford Milford County Nebraska

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a

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death

wor

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I got to give you a h man

the hell did they did here

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a

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it be there

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bre

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okay

for for

you think I'm a

collaborator

no just gets confusing sometimes not

knowing the

difference there's no

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choice the other morning there was a

child in our

yard foraging like an animal

cold and

hungry in our

yard she ran off because of who I was I

was the wife of the County Administrator

I was a

threat an

enemy I've lived in Milford all my life

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never really thought about whether it

was

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pretty or really a nice place to

live or what made it that way

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I'm afraid

Peter I've never been afraid like this

before

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dein good morning

Ally oh my biggest brother

I can't believe you're

here oh God I look terrible you're not

supposed to see me like this go

away I'm sorry I'm not I'm not quite

prepared to face the world yet

uh oh what the hell I mean you don't

look so great yourself now that I think

about it where you been in prison camp

or something

it's good to see you

Ellie you look

good yeah oh yeah now that is true I

really am looking

good uh no I think I look more like hell

it comes from uh all this boozing and

whing that was just a little homecoming

joke

will you sit

down come

on can I get you some coffee or

anything um it's not really coffee it's

chory we make our own

you know that was pretty

funny well I mean you coming through

that door and both of us looking at each

other not even knowing who the other one

was well I would say that's a hell of a

comment on graceful aging wouldn't

you

so where was it

Dev what was it

I mean all we got was

rumors

baby hey you still in there huh or did

they get you

well I got to go clean up the

B Allie

uh-huh Allie I saw the

camp the

tense

trailers are those the Exiles yeah uh

reverse homesteading the uh advisory

committee figured is that Country Life

and good hard work in the farm is really

good for the

soul well Dad will give you a rundown

later

on listen um

don't don't count on much from

him oh listen if you if you want

to if you want to go into town with me

later Ward usually runs Us in you know

guest for the cops and

everything you want to do

that I'm so glad you're home I don't

think I'd ever see you guys

now I'll be right back

hey he did pretty good governor

general it's going to be the good

Governor from Missouri good party member

go ahead toss him

in faithful Tony eh yeah this the new

strip

yeah looks a little bit like monop mind

doesn't it yeah some Ad Agency in

Chicago designed it stocks of corn wheat

I've been looking for a 10un pig note

sure is homie all right how's the

exchange program going pretty well

except for the Exiles they're being

forced to turn in their dollars so they

can get relief food and clothing some

people have a love affair for the dollar

save your Confederate money I don't yeah

well maybe it gives them hope thinking

someday it is

think it has anything to do with the

money what do you mean

decentralization makes the area more

powerful countries print money yep first

just looks technical but what are you

going to do use it

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oh

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you

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a little early for the tourist

season hello I'm Amanda Bradford I know

who you

are can I help

you I don't know I was just never been

out here

before and thought you'd like to see the

way the scum

now what is it you call us squatters H

live

no I guess I just wanted to see if there

was anything I could

do to help what happened the Junior

League run out of

projects you know to be perfectly honest

with you I don't know what I'm doing

here

now maybe you're right maybe maybe

we maybe I should have come out

sooner but I'm here

now I don't know maybe you

should take advantage of that instead of

trying to alienate

me fair enough

welcome to America's Russian Inspired

Real Life Animal

Park first they just took the

land so we figured maybe it'd be all

right then the Exile started

coming and they took our house Betty's

and mine leus finally G's and every damn

bill building born yeah but isn't it

wonderful that we're able to be all

together Under One Roof just the way our

ancestors live and a whole batch of them

come in here last summer their place is

already overrun they don't know the

first damn thing about how to take care

of themselves they don't know how to dig

a Cess poool or leech line I had to keep

them from going to the bathroom in the

Stream they're City people most of them

good folks well if this is damn good

what they do to get themselves in here

for the same reason as Devon most of

them did something that the Govern

government didn't like now we we don't

like the government either right but

because they're forced on our land

suddenly they're the enemy too can't

tell the enemy without a score card all

I know is this County wouldd be a hell

lot better off without them they steal

grain from the elevators they hungry

Ward they do get relief food and

clothing they sure know enough to tear

down the trees you know this is really

really great we're getting mad because

they're dripping live trees to keep warm

and you're sitting down at the bank

burning old money that has nothing to do

I think it's time the

surprise hey dvo sound

familiar nothing's changed except I

guess I've sort of taken your

spot I just want to make sure the law is

kept protect my own

first keep things straight that sounds

simple

enough welcome home to you welcome home

to you welcome home

dear welcome home to

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you well how about almost everybody's

glad you're home

dvo better than my last vote

count that's for

sure this gu's trying to

understand he works so hard for this man

all his

life when he lost it

all he blame you

hell we used to produce half a million

bushels of corn 150,000 bushels of wheat

that filled three elevators that's 250

railroad cars what about half the milk

for Omaha damn it what the hell is the

matter with you Ally why do you have to

do this because we're not those milfords

anymore yes we are those milfords we

just lost what we had if we've lost

think of the rest of the people in this

country what they've lost what about

their lives what about

Devon what is he lost Ward Devon's been

in a prison camp for 6 years in a prison

camp we sit around here mourning our

past we didn't lose what did we lose we

lost what our forefathers built not what

we hey don't say that this man worked

all his life for this we earned it maybe

you didn't maybe you had it handed to

you on a silver platter we worked for it

and we earned it we're clinging to our

last 50 acres here our house that's

right we're not doing anything about it

we're we're sitting here complaining

we've given up we sit here peeking out

the window at those awful squatters oh

my god look there's a hungry cold

squatter and he's tinkling in our River

well hell there goes the

neighborhood what are you doing

am what exactly are you doing to make it

better cuz I'd like to know you think

drinking getting drunk and sleeping what

I stop

it

Lord you don't say one more

word well I guess we're all just

trying to get by the best we

can you know I'm trying real hard not to

hate the

Exiles or the

Russians and especially

myself I'm

sorry hell of a homecoming party

sry Lord

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he

Dad we going to have to talk sometime

like it or not I'm your

son and I don't think you understand I

was doing what I did there ain't nothing

about you that's mine ain't nothing

about me that's yours let's just leave

it that way well I don't want to leave

it that

that I'd like to talk to you about

it I want to tell you what I you been a

part of something else for 20 years

something that doesn't do us any good

hasn't done anybody any

good I understand how you

feel but I respect

you I respect your life do you you lived

your life like it didn't give a damn

what I did me my father or his either

there've been three generations of mil

fors building up the land what do you

have to do with that ever Milford I ever

knew about was good loyal Americans

trying to build it up and you come back

from Vietnam tearing it down then you go

off with some showoff thing against this

new Bunch all he good have did was call

a lot of attention to

yourself I was trying to do the right

thing I was trying to stop him you lost

the land

they say I got to live with you eat with

you don't mean I got to talk to you

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he

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oh

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oh

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hi what are

you what are you

doing

nothing don't you ever knock

where what these are mine you don't have

any right to touch my

stuff where did you get

this how long have you had these it's my

father he almost destroyed our life just

because he fought against some of your

friends stop it stop it right now you're

not the boss of everything I want to see

my dad that's out of the question you

can't stop me I can be with my dad if I

want no you can't he's an exile you have

no schooling no privileges which I've

been able to create for in of your

father that's a laugh you just screwed

some Russian general in Washington think

I'm stupid everybody in school knows how

you stop

it

okay

William William

Caleb yeah it's all right

sweetheart Billy's

upset he

uh I've chosen to announce my candidacy

here at this Memorial to those who died

in

Vietnam because until recent events it

was the worst thing to happen in my

lifetime and I think the worst thing to

happen to

America it's somehow struck the core of

our perception of ourselves as a people

many of us lost our

faith in the vision of the country I

fought in the Vietnam War and against it

and against injustices in our

society I've been highly critical of

what I consider to be the hypocrisy

self-deception the immorality of some of

our national

policies but now Something's Happened

for the first time in our

history we've been overpowered by a

foreign Nation there are those who say

it's an opportunity to correct some of

the wrongs in our

society well as one who has fought for

equality in this

Society I'll tell you my struggle was

not so that we could all be equally

enslaved no we're not all in prison

camps we're not all beaten down by an

occupying army with tanks on every

corner but we don't need troops to tell

us we've lost our

vision we don't need Soviet advisors to

prove that we've lost our national

purpose Americans have allowed

themselves to become

immobilized by their own selfish concern

concerns immobilized by a lack of

understanding of the freedom secured by

our forefathers into which most of us

were

born and now

lost I've come before you

today to ask for your

support in an effort to regain our

freedom the battle will be

long and

hard there are those of us

who will not see its

end if the dream of democracy cannot

survive in

America it cannot survive the 20th

century he's touched

you I don't know he's you're

American what ises he touching

you never thought of myself as an

American

you know patriotic or

anything I always just thought of myself

as

me I mean America was where I

lived I mean of course I was an American

but it was just there there nothing I

had to think

about yet you do Outlaw

theater isn't that patriotic in some way

guess I don't think of it that way why

do you do it then maybe because you

control

everything

willfulness

Independence is that what he's talking

about I don't

know would you follow

him not sure he makes me feel different

kind of like

you but you're

Russian what about Peter

Bradford well he's a nice

man I mean I guess he's somebody I wish

my father had been huh somebody always

trying to do the right

thing he makes me feel

safe Devon Milford doesn't make me feel

safe

he's I don't want to play this game

anymore it isn't the game

this man spent 6 years in a prison camp

because we were afraid of what effect he

would have on

people and I wish I could

understand what it is about him you

control everything what difference does

it make you Americans you're such a

mystery to everyone but

yourselves if I could understand this

man I could understand America

what was it daddyy a deal reinstated if

I don't see Justin honey that's not fair

you bet it isn't fair just a second you

got reinstated because you deserved

it just a

second what if they just sit inside and

talk they wouldn't be going

out if they want to see see each other

we're not going to be able to

stop Justin

Peter this is my house jacine is my

daughter we've got 15 minutes

hi Justin you're letting the cold in

we've got us St here sodas in the ice

GLX forgot s Justin come on in come on

in what the hell is this you PR tell you

everything you got to do Daddy's just

being a

father come on in take off your coat and

stay a while you've got 15 minutes what

do you say we make

love when my uncle came home

it's

wasted blew him

up maybe they even did a labotomy or

something I don't

know I've got to do

something

look we can make it to

Wyoming I've got it routed and

everything in a week we'd be safe up in

the

Rockies if I stay around here the best I

can hope for is some uh I don't know

what a job as a labor

the same for you H you said so

yourself well this is our

chance the longer we wake the less

likely we'll ever do

anything um I got reinstated to the area

Dance

Company your old man fixed it you said

yourself I deserved it you you're buying

it

and you're

B first they tell you you're not good

enough I am good and you're depressed

and they tell you are good and you're

ready to buy into the whole damn it's

not about being good it's

about being one of them no it is about

being good and if you don't understand

that then you don't understand anything

and you don't understand me

I

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though

Justin

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Justin I love you

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I love

you why do you bother with

me I love

you you don't know

me you just want to love an

American doesn't matter what I really am

or who I

am why do you love

me God you are arrogant aren't

you I mean maybe I don't love you at all

maybe I'm just using

you your position maybe you can help my

career or maybe I'm part of some crazy

resistance movement and I'm waiting for

just the right time to kill

you in the middle of Love Making

yes sometimes I

think you don't know what it means to

really love

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someone when will you be

back a few days a

week have you

decided yes it's the nice man from

Milford Peter Bradford

what not the one who just got out of

prison no now I'm afraid he's a piece of

the past

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stay in the compound now I don't

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that's

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good are

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you're a music

lover no I'm sorry G you back yes I'm

back that's why you can hear my voice

what a silly question who's this who

knows I'm sorry I Disturbed you wait a

minute wait a

minute come on in

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here I voted for you it's amazing how

good people just never seem

single-minded enough or ruthless enough

to survive I mean the history of

Communism is filled with men with good

intentions who couldn't survive the

singlest struggle for

power the history of Communism yes and

we America is now part of the history of

Communism interesting way to think of it

wouldn't you say they would have been

better off in East Germany yes yes yes

it's one of life's little jokes at least

there we grew up been yeah we grown up

but we didn't stay we didn't stay

G maybe we are just meant to be

Outsiders little bit like

you I you we a congressman from the the

Massachusetts I used to follow your

ideas I even read that book you wrote Oh

interesting

experience but somewhat simplistic a

little bit overstated but doot that's

just the difference between the American

experience and US Europeans you're a

musician

I used to be first chair with the New

York

philarmonic we were exposed a friend who

wanted to be first

chair exposed and we had escaped from

the gdr we were people of no consequence

was just Revenge

opportunism opportunism opportunism

opportunism opportunism fact of

life even in

America and

you you do not think you were

betrayed

no no one was

ready ah yes the

people took the easy way out again did

they I'm sorry I've got go oh forgive me

I had no intention to be rude thank you

please have a

cookie you expected something else