It gave her new insight on how her dad treasured a day off, without the constant intrusion of one crisis after another from his job. She listened to the news again, walking to the gym where she had a private running room reserved. It was Wednesday, October 6, 2083 and she listened to a non-government channel again, although they were still heavily regulated. The commercial channel had some news about media stars, which was meaningless to her. Someone had leaked a story the outlawed Libertarian Party leader James Tate, native born, but stripped of his citizenship under the Terror and Sedition laws, had been kidnapped by Federal agents in Argentina last summer and smuggled back into the country where he was being held incommunicado. A couple in California had an electrical break down in their car, near the Nevada state line losing their sat com link. Despite having water they died of the fifty-seven degree heat in the six hours before rescuers were aware they were overdue and reached them.
