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there were hundreds of forms to fill out, and nobody knew English all that well, and the rules changed all the time, and the agents hated talking to us.
guessing which agent we would get. And we would watch their temper over the course of the day like farmers in Oklahoma watch rain clouds
It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out over and over, for a year, with a gun to your head.