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Edgar Hagstrohm works for the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps and lives in a suburban housing area called Proteus Park in Chicago. Because Edgar is exceedingly average (as determined by a group of machines), Halyard takes the Shah to visit his household, hoping to show him the life of a run-of-the-mill American worker. What the machines that chose Edgar don’t know, though, is that he’s cheating on his wife, Wanda, and that he’s not very happy.
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Chapter 17
...the family home of a typical Reclamation and Reconstruction Corps worker. The family consists of Edgar R. B. Hagstrohm, his wife Wanda, and his two kids. According to the machines that...
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The house Edgar and Wanda live in is called an M-17 house, and it’s the exact kind of...
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...asking what Wanda actually does for fun. Wanda thinks hard and mutters that she and Edgar watch a lot of television.
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When the Shah leaves, Edgar feels so guilty about his affair that he comes clean to Wanda. But this doesn’t...
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