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You will be called."
I sat down in an easy chair and laid my cane aside. A small table by it
held magazines and a newspaper. I glanced at each one, looking for anachronisms,
but found none. The periodicals were all ones that I recalled as available in
Iowa in the seventies;
they carried dates of July 2177 or earlier. The newspaper was the Grinnell
Herald-Register, dated Friday, June 27, 2177.
I started to put it down, as the Herald-Register is not exactly exciting.
Uncle subscribed to a daily printout from Des Moines and, of course, the Kansas
City Star, but our local paper was good only for campus notes, local notices,
and the sort of "news" and "society" items that are published to display as many
local names as possible.
But an ad caught my eye: On Sunday, July twentieth, one night only, at Des
Moines Municipal Opera House, the Halifax Ballet Theater will present Midsummer
Night's Dream, with the sensational new star Luanna Pauline as Titania.
I read it twice... and promised myself that I would take Hazel to see it.
It would be a special anniversary: I had met Mistress Gwendolyn Novak at Golden
Rule's Day One Ball, Neil Armstrong Day, July twentieth a year ago (never mind
that silly time loop) and this would make a delightful reprise of the gala eve
of our wedding day (without, this time, some unmannerly oaf crashing our party
and dying at our table)
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