The Stranger by Albert Camus

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…began to wipe the tears rolling down his eyes, as he sang "America, the Beautiful". He would later find out from Brokaw that his stampede occurred every hour, on the hour. As John Q. Public journeyed out of hell, and back to his house with 2.5 children and his white picket fence in suburban America, he gazed upon the huddled masses and realized that things could be a lot worse, he could have been a democrat!