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In the current time, people have discovered how to find "the meaning of life within [themselves]" (8). This was not necessarily true in the past, the narrator explains, forcing people to turn to religion instead. After decades of space travel in search of meaning, humanity realized that the only place left unexplored was the human soul. The narrator states that the following story is entirely true and took place in the Nightmare Ages between the end of World War II and the Third Great Depression.
A crowd of people waits for a man and his dog to materialize at the lavish Rumfoord Estate in Newport, Rhode Island. However, since this crowd has not been invited, they will not witness the event. They simply want to be nearby as they are obsessed with these so-called miracles. For the past nine years, a man and his dog have materialized in this place once every 59 days. Mrs. Beatrice Rumfoord has declined the requests of the world's "great men" (9) to be present at a materialization. Instead, she issues her own report on what happens and refuses to elaborate. The man who materializes is her husband,
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