Allen Stein is a diarist. He is sometimes eloquent, usually lucid, often wordy, succumbs to stream-of- consciousness ramblings and wonderfully thoughtful. He is also a widower, a father, and a victim. He is in mourning for his wife, doesn't know what happened to his children, and is enraged at becoming a victim. And it is all because of the Bureau. The Bureau owns everything and everybody. What Allen has is courtesy of the Bureau. His housemates are courtesy of the Bureau. His food, his entertainment, his clothing, his housing, his transportation, his very life are all courtesy of the Bureau. Allen is 69 years old and remembers the United States of America. What it was. What it offered. What it stood for. He knows what the Bureau took from him. And he wants it back. He's just not sure how that's going to happen. Yet.
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