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Allenwood

Gray concrete swallows the Orford Bluff owner, his 40-month securities fraud sentence carving isolation into federal silence. Bars clang with justice's unyielding math, distant echoes fueling Oval Office laments—Bartlet's weary deflection as felon shadows choke library dreams. Oppressive stasis grips from afar, every locked gate a barbed hurdle in presidential chess, where one man's cage rewires national ambitions.
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S2E16 · Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
Bartlet's Wearied Vent and Deflection to Leo

Bartlet reveals the Orford bluff owner's 40-month securities fraud sentence at Allenwood as the snag dooming the donation; the prison's distant clang reverberates in Oval frustration, recasting a felon's cage as a barbed presidential hurdle.

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Oppressively static, echoing with justice's isolation

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Institutional barrier complicating land gift

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Manifests collateral fallout of individual crime on national plans

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Federal confinement, inaccessible to donor

Gray concrete and clanging bars Imposed stasis fueling remote Oval laments

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