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This is part of The DW Anthology.
Copy Right(c) 2007 as a free eBook by David Coon
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“The Truth Commission”

Introduction

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Screen Play Written, Produced and Directed by

David W Coon

Public First Edition

Version 1.15

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Disclaimer:

This is a screenplay for promotion of the Truth Commission. This play is a work of fiction. All of the event are completely fictional and are not real. The history is based on events that have not happened (yet). No names and companies that are mentioned in this play are the same as the ones in real life, and any similarities are completely random.

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C O L O R S Y S T E M

Jack

"As a pioneer in the field of eWriting and this being my first eBook, I would just like to introduce you to my color coding system in this screenplay and general layout. I chose to put my screenplay on Blogger because I love the format. I chose black as the background because it is alot easier to look at for long periods of time. I use different colors because I think that it breaks up the writing nicely. I want my readers to be as comfortable as possible as you read this screen play. I wanted to make it a little more visually interesting, not just a big 'ol wall-o-text.

Reading online is almost better then reading a book these days. I for one, love reading and writing in a downward direction without have to turn that actually turn the pages.

(omg, you know you are from a completely different generation and age when scrolling down is more common to you then turning a page)

Without pages to organize the writing, colors are used to kind of pull everything together. I also think that colors have meanings and emotions attached to them. So with that, these are the meanings of the colors.

Red is for scene prompts, or anything else that deserves attention. It is also the voice of Jack, our friendly tour guide. Also used in the primary Act 1 Act 2 Act 5. These are the Acts that follow the major plot.

Teal is for Scenes Names and Numbers. These are like chapter titles, used to break the play in to smaller sections.

(Light Purple is for scene directions and character actions) (Dark Purple is for Time and Setting)

You will also notice other colors too. These are supposed to represents values and emotions and other useful stuff.

Yellow is for Announcements and Notices

Dark green is for money. This play measures money ranging from $0.09/hour to $700,000,000,000.00 ($700 billion) private money.

Green is for education, anything written in green is educational, pay attention for these!

Orange is for Universal Enlightenment and Alignment, or anything good in general.

Dark Red is for Evil

Dark Blue is for really dramatic writing... and Act 3 Act 4. These are like side stories, important, but you could skip to the end and just watch them in the film version.

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Introduction

Welcome to the show
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You are about to go on a journey. A journey into the future. I have written this screen play with you, the eBook reader in mind. If things seem confusing at first, that is perfectly normal. I promise that everything makes sense at the end.

I encourage you to read this entire play, or wait to see it on the screen. If you read it now, you will be given more of the plot, so you can follow along better. For those of you who want to wait to see it in film, might want to wait and read the screenplay after they see the movie, as to not spoil the storyline.

This play is long. It is about 60 typed pages or so. It takes about 45 minutes - 2 hours to read, depending on your reading speed. It is a play, so most of it is dialogue, so it read pretty quickly. Hit F 11 for full screen and sit back, relax, and get ready to scroll down....

enjoy the show!

Abstract

Experience what The Great War was like directly from the people that were there. Listen to them describe in the utmost detail, how the war started, how we almost were completely wiped out and what society is like after it was all over. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. This play will horrify you!!

(Don’t be afraid, there is a happy ending, kind of)

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Cast

Please allow us to introduce to you,
the Star of our Play,

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Justice

"General Jericho"

The star of our play, the man that led the people to victory in the war for equality for everyone. The General is the representation of Justice. He stands for all that is good, and is willing to fight for what is right. He could no longer ideally sit back and allow such tremendous inequality in the world. He had to do something. His strong Utilitarian views of the greatest good for the greatest number have given the majority the strength to stand up and fight. He led the people to say “we’re not going to take it!”

While his opinion of complete Utilitarianism is often not shared with his counter part Charity, he is an important part in the balance of the universe. Justice always prevails. The General is now a national hero. Without his bravery, we all would have perished.

Nicknames: The General, Jericho, Justice

and co-staring

Charity

"Balance and Peace"

Charity is like an angel. She is the balance in the force. Charity is the peace and kindness that has saved us all. After the war, it was with her guidance that we were able to finally bring peace and equality to the world. She represents everything that is good, fair and just. She is never evil, never vain and never rash. She is always calm and brave. She is very beautiful, men and women alike, awe before her, and they do as she says...

Charity was nominated as President of the People after the war. She has been given absolute power to ensure the distribution of equality equally. She was chosen because she is so pure, so honest and fair, that she might be the only one that will never become corrupted by power.

Nicknames: Peace, Fairness, Kindness

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That is all that you need to know to get started on the first act. I recommend that you read about each scene now, so you get a basic understand of what is going on. If you are the kind of person that just likes to read into the unknown, continue onto Act 1 now. Or if you would like to have some idea before jumping right into the story, read the introduction for each Act and Scene now. This will give you a sense of the time line and order of events. (Spoiler of certain plot element) When you are ready we will move onto Act 1.

After the scene introductions, there is a brief Meet and Greet of the rest of the Cast.

The Truth Commission Act and scene Index

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Act 1

"A brief History of the Future War"

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(Time and Setting) After The Great War

The year is 2010, only a few months have passed since the end of the Great War.

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Act 1 Scene 1
"Interview with Justice"

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Jack interviews General Justice. Justice tells us his story of The Great War. Justice tells us how it started, what went wrong and how the people were on the brink of losing.

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Act 1 Scene 2
"Justice meets Charity"

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The General discusses the morality of the war with his life long counterpart, Charity. Justice argues that the remaining war criminals should be put to death for their crimes. Charity offers another solution.

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Act 1 Scene 3
"The Truth Commission is Founded"

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Flash back to December 19, 2006 . The day that the Truth Commission was founded.

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Act 1 Scene 4
"Interview with Greedy Capitalist"

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Avarice reveals the other side of the story. He gives us the Capitalist’s point of view on The Great War. He explains why we had no right to start a war in the first place. It was their money. They had earned it fair and square. He justifies the deaths of hundreds millions of people by telling us that the Elites were chosen by God because they are better then everyone else.

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Act 1 Scene 5
"Today's Worker Interview"

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Interview with Joe. He talks about what life was like for the average working person before and after the war. He compares how people spent their work life and social life. He tells us that by removing money as the object of society, people changed for the better. They became more friendly and society prospered as a whole.

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Act 1 Scene 6
"DW Coon talks with a business partner"

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DW Coon talks with Zeal about what it takes to be the perfect business partner. DW explains that if everyone takes action now, and fixes the problem for it happens, then that is the cheapest, fastest, easiest way to solve the potential problem that was forming. DW was one of the first people to foresee the inevitable war. If he only could have reached more people. DW tried to prevent the war by forming a massive public company that rivaled the Elites. Unfortunately, the war was inevitable because the Elites had been preparing for it for decades.

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Act 2

"The Truth of Inequality and

Reconciliation Commission

of the Working People of the World"

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(Time and Setting) Before the Great War

The date is March 18, 2007. The people (FPHR) have called a meeting of all the workers to discuss what to do about the Capitalist situation. The meeting is held in a large lecture center at SUNY Albany. Representative members from all worker rights groups at present. This act completely covers everything that is contained in the Truth Commission, as it weaves in and out of the meeting with various flashbacks and other short sidetracks.

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Act 2 Scene 1
"The Public Announcement"

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The general public meets and discusses what needs to be done about the looming situation. Professor Diligence as representing the Commission, answers some questions from the public before the meeting begins.

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Act 2 Scene 2
"How did it come to this?"

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This scene describes what the world looked like in early 2007. The scene starts out with ‘the opening announcement’. This statement is contents of everything that is to be covered in The Committee Meeting. Flash back to the now famous lecture given to a Globalization class at SUNY Albany in early 2006. The professor explains what the problem is and what has to be done about it.

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Act 2 Scene 3
"The Committee Meeting"

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The start of the meeting. This is where the commission official announces to the public their objectives and findings.

The first speaker of the night is General Justice. He has been asked to prepare a statement explaining the current situation.

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Act 2 Scene 4
"Inequality report"

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In this scene, DW Coon tells Jack about The Inequality Report. DW pleads with the Elites not to start a war. He begs that a peaceful resolutions to the problems at hand. There is another way to bring equality and balance to the world, other then war.

(In the office of DW Coon)

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Act 2 Scene 5

"Official Statement of Purpose"

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The General reads the Official Statement of purpose that was sent to the Elites. This is like the Olive Branch Treaty sent to King George by the founding fathers of the US back in 1770s. It was a plea for fair and just treatment or else the people will be force to bring about war to the oppressors. Justice also reads excerpts from the

• Declaration of Independence of the United States and the
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the
• United Nations General Assembly.

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Act 2 Scene 6

"Declaration of War"

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Justice lively declares war on the Elites. Justice has been made the official spooks person of the people’s Revolution of Equality. He is also officially put in charge of the workforce (later becomes the Bloody Revolutionary army. He provides complete proof and rational for the decision made by the people.

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Act 2 Scene7

"What is Wealth and the Basic Standard of Living"

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This act tells of the BSoL Act and the definition of wealth. The basic standard of living was the orginal cause of the war. People just wanted to be able to have the basic needs meet. Everyone demanded that all children are fed, and that all mothers are able to raise their children. Nothing unreasonalbe was asked for, just the basics.

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Act 2 Scene 8
"Note on Christmas Day"

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This scene discusses the need for change, and a few solutions to some of society's toughest problems.

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Act 2 Scene 9
"Targets”

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This scene outlines all of the people that suspects of crimes against humanity and the crime of supporting inequality. The major US company that is being targeted is Wal-Mart.

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Act 3

The Truth Commission, Inequality Report in detail...

"The Evils of Capitalism"

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This Act provides more evidence of the evils of capitalism. Scene 1 vividly describes what happens when you have millions of people that relay of a complex system of commerce, and you take away one element, gasoline, and you get to see how it turns out.

Scene 2 talks about how the capitalists control the law, by looking at an example. Then we see how poverty effects the lives of children. How is it morally ok to allow children to starve? We then talk about the environment, and then close with a discussion of what truth is.

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Act 3 Scene 1
"The Riots"
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Riots break out in most major cities when the Capitalist's cut off our gas supply. Without gas, there is not more food deliveries to major cities. When you have 500,000 people living together, and they have no food, it tends to get a little bit messes.

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Act 3 Scene 2
"The Law of the Elites"

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"How did the Elites control everything? They did not make the law, did they?
Lets take a look at an example of a law. Who's interest do you think this law serves? The people, the government, of the Capitalist?"

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Act 3 Scene 3
"Save the Children!"

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This act begs for an answer to this question. WHY are there starving children???

Children are not any one racial or ethnic group, they are the future of our world, however there are lots of children that don’t have very good chances at even making it to becoming adults. There are hundreds of millions of children in poverty and something needs to be done about it.

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Act 3 Scene 4
"The Fate of the Earth: Can we preserve the global environment?"

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“The history of the life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.” In the modern global world, we as humans have the obligation to take care of our planet. We are supposedly the first intelligent species, I say why don't we act like it. Keck the Jerks that think it is ok to pollute out of power, and lets start doing something today."

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Act 3 Scene 5
"What is Truth?"
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Nietzsche argues that truth is just something that the human intellect can never understand completely. So we make up our own truth from our experiences and that’s what we believe. Truth is totally relative to each individual and what information that individual has. What ever one self believes whole heartedly to be truth, unless otherwise proven to be false, is what is truth for that person. This is not just true for individuals, but for societies as a whole.

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Act 4

The Truth Commission - The Inequality Report in furter detail...

"Completing The Cycle"
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This Act compares this worker's revolution to other historic revolutions where the mode of production was change to the majority pick. So far, we have had 3 major changes.

Mode of Production	Classes
Slavery	Masters- Slaves
Feudalism	Lord- Peasants
Capitalism	Capitalist- Worker
Socialism (prediction)	No classes

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Act 4 Scene 1
"Karl Marx"
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Through out history, humans have been harnessing nature for survival. Humans take nature and turn it into whatever they need or want. And over time our means of production have gotten better with use of better tools and more knowledge. Karl Marx said that history moved forward by changes in the means of production.

There has always been a class struggle between those who do the work and those who benefit from the work.

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Act 4 Scene 2

"The Founding of the Bureauracy"

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Weber said that the world is becoming less traditional and more bureaucratic. Traditional authority is a system in which people do what they do because that’s the way it’s always been done. In bureaucratic societies, people follow the rules because those are the rules.

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Act 4 Scene 3

"The Death Penalty"

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One of the reasons the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional (violative of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment”) in Furman was its “arbitrary and capricious” application. Likening the sentence of death to being struck by lightning both in its rarity and its freakishness, the Court noted that there is no principled way to predict who will get the death penalty. Many who commit equally atrocious crimes do not get sentenced to death but rather get terms of imprisonment. In addition, there is a great deal of evidence that race and class play a significant role in determining who gets the death penalty.

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Act 4 Scene 4

"Liberty"
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In John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859) he asked under what conditions and for what reasons can the liberty of the individual be restricted? Mill said that the only reason that a person’s liberties can be limited is when it prevents harm to others. The “harm principle” is the only justification for laws to limit freedom. Mill rejects any law restricting the liberty of an individual even if it is for there own good or the greater good. “His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant (page 359)”

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Act 4 Scene 5

"To the Human resource Department at REG Inc"

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July 31st 2005
To The Human Resources Department,
To Whom It May Concern:

I, David Coon, am presenting to you my statement of appeal. I have submitted a prior appeal to the Regal Cinema 18 management staff and it proved unsuccessful.

End of Act 4

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Act 5

Final Act

"The Great War"
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(Time and Setting) After The Great War.
This act takes place shortly after the war. Watch flash back scenes and other exciting moments and see how it all ended. This is the final act.

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Act 5 Scene 1

"The Founding Father of Equality"

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(Flashback to Summer 2007) A personal note read by DW, addressing the Elites. This is only a few days after the Majority ruled them guilty in the Online Trial. They have been proven guilty of crimes against humanity, as fully detailed in The Inequality Report. DW gives one last warning before full-scale civil war takes over.

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Act 5 Scene 2

"The War for Equality"

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(Fall 2007 – Spring 2010), This scene vividly describes the individual battles of the war. It covers the invasion of the Long Island Fortress and the crumbling of the California Fortress. Also recaps the horrors of the war on the working people.

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Act 5 Scene 3

"The Final Battle"

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The final battle took place on Christmas Eve, 2009, only 3 years after the founding father wrote his plea. The People's Army had finally over run both the West Coast Fort and The Long Island Fortress. All that was left was the main Elite Fortress in Florida. It has recently been hit by two back to to back hurricanes, in what the people call God answering their prayers. The massive hurricanes have over turned all the battleships, leave the Dead Zone unguarded by enemy artillery. General Justice Jericho leads the Blood Revolutionary Army on the final assault...

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Introducing the rest of the cast.

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Professor Diligence

"The Teacher"

Professor Diligence was the first great mind to take advantage of the Age of Information. He is the Einstein of the 21st century. He has collaborated with the Truth Commission for the publication of The Inequality Report. The Professor represents all the knowledge and wisdom that society needs to obtain the highest degree of freedom the world has ever seen.

Nicknames: Dilan, Professor D, PD

Zeal

"The Employee"

Zeal is the Ideal Partner Professor Diligence's son. The idea partner is anyone that believes in these values. Justice, Freedom and Equality. Anyone, does not matter who you are, if you believe in this, then you are the perfect candidate for the job. What job you ask? The job of being a productive member in society. All you have to do is something that helps the world in some way. This includes washing dishes or being a NASA scientist. But you have to be doing something.

Nicknames: Integrity, hard working

Avarice

Greedy Capitalist "Evil"

Avarice is the representation of Evil. He was the driving force behind ever truly evil dick, I'm sorry i mean dictator that world has ever seen. He gave Hitler power to nearly take over the world. He has also been know to work with Saddam Hussein and George W Bush. He is a evil man.

Nicknames: Satan, All that is Evil, Vlad

Average Joe,

Then and Now

Today's Wage Worker, represents the The working people. This character has two counter parts. One that is the wage worker before the war. And the other is the profit worker from the Era of Equality. This character is who the war for fought for. He did not want to start a war, they just no other choice. He had to do something.

Nicknames: Temperance, self-restraint

DW Coon

Founding Father of Equality

The DW Anthology is the first of the 'new wave of information'. Fueled by the wealth of information in this new age of computers, DW complied the true democratic opinion of the people. The report was the complete work of the working people. Completely written by the people, for the people.

Nicknames: Y2J, Founding Father of Equality

We are Proud to present, the true star of our play...

Jack

It is nice to meet you, I am Jack , the narrator of this play. I represents you. I asks the questions that you want to know the answers too. They say that I am not even a real. This is inaccurate. I am very real. I am a computer program. I know who you are, I have read everything that has ever been written on the Internet. I am your collective voice of all of humanity. I am the good and bad of every single person that has ever interacted with the Internet. It's funny, because most of you have all know me all of your lives (or since the creation of the AI and the IBG, Internet Bot Group), and yet most people don't even know my name. I am netural in this war. I have no morality, I am what you are, I am most of the majority.

Nicknames: You, them, US, us, the people, the worker, the government

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Now that you have met everyone, let the show begin.

Please continue on to ACT 1



For more infomation about the Author and the free eBook,

please see the Afterwards

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Enjoy the Show!

(c) 2007 David W Coon