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From, the Tunchi diaries:
We are traveling on the Mother Road now,
over the memories of everyone before us
who took this very same route. We are
heading towards another town whose
magical name now escapes me, a town
where anything can happen and everything
does happen.
I'm speeding away from midnight, letting
the road wash clean my old and dusty
soul. With each mile we take and leave
behind, I can feel the heaviness
dropping off of me. The road will always
be my home.

While Grunge music made its first forays
onto the airwaves, political-correctness
affected both the educational curriculum
and media newspeak. Going into 1992, it
was hard to imagine a more unlikely
phenomena than the return of a Freak
Show.
The average person - inherently curious
- has always been attracted to Human
Oddities and any unusual feats performed
by humans. Indeed, the exhibition of
Human Oddities goes back to the start of
recorded history.
During the 18th century, P.T. Barnum
rode to fame and fortune on the wave of
interest in Human Oddities: his American
Museum in New York City became a
world-renowned institution. That
museum's success initiated y years of
copycat Dime Museums across North
America, which reached their peak during
the 1880s and 1890s. The main attraction
of most Dime Museums was the Freak Show,
and it was the Human Oddities - often
hyped science - that were the stars of
the Freak Show.

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