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→The 4-H club kids were there with their animals and plants for the livestock show and the various other competitions, the handicrafters and the cooks and the farmers were all there looking for prizes or markets for their various wares in the exposition barns and -- perhaps most important -- the carnival midway was in full swing with its rides and shills and 'games of chance' and other entertainments. The throngs were everywhere from the riding rings to the restrooms -- where at least one odd phenomenon was going on: Apparently, the end porta-potty was ALWAYS occupied, and people came out regularly -- but no one in line ever saw anyone go in...

→Things had changed, but people on Earth needed the familiar, so even while some institutions crumbled and fell away, others remained to give people something to cling to. The Clark County Fair has been going on every July for the past hundred and fifty years, and it was going on today, nearly two and a half years after the announcement that aliens were coming to destroy the world. There were a lot of people on Earth who weren't going to be able to do much about it -- and EVERYBODY needed a little time away from the harsh realities of the situation.