Good morning, citizens. Today: on the twelfth of this month the sun will go out over several other nations, who will drive hundreds of miles to stand in a field and be in the dark for one hundred and six seconds. That same night our sky will carry between fifty and one hundred approved lights per hour, and you may observe them on your way to Productivity Hour — do look up; do not stop walking. This month's jar of Solution is waiting at your distribution point. And then our Heartwarming Story: a coat lost fifty-nine years ago has come home, pressed, mended, and clean. Everything is already wonderful.

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