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A candidate for Congress is Iowa astonishes the crowds and earns the suspicions of the New York media crowd. What is that black box in front of him and who is the engineer at his side?
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Dwayne Phillips
A systems and computer engineer since 1980. A short story fiction writer.
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Dwayne Phillips
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said the man in the in the striped shirt that hung loosely outside his pants. You won’t believe what you are about to see.
The man at whom these words were aimed was older and dressed as if he were a stranger in the crowd. He was wearing grey slacks and a long-sleeved powder blue shirt that was pressed with sharp creases and damp at the armpits. He was also wearing a look of having heard it all before and not ready to be impressed.
The first man read the expression clearly and added, No, I’m serious. You are not going to believe this.
The expression of the second man did not change. The one-way conversation
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