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Sunday, July 27, 2003

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. -- The doors of the low, gray building behind the Route 37 Motel swing open to a cardboard cutout of Barbara Bush festooned in Christmas ornaments. A few steps away, a wooden display case holds a blurry photograph of Abraham Lincoln's dead body.

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