On New Year's Eve 1899, Mr. Smith is boycotting the party thrown by his father for the family's fireworks factory, annoyed by the celebration of the mathematically-false centennial. He instead spends his time trying to repair a clock which allegedly stopped cold the same instant the bullet entered Lincoln's brain - while his hugely-pregnant wife awaits the breaking of her water and his father finally tells of his torture in a Confederate prison camp.
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