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This preview edition begins an exploration of the anxieties and issues faced in Rural America as it prepared to move into a new millennium... Empyre, named to evoke the highest realm of heaven, has become something quite different for many of its residents. As they ring in 1996, they reflect on how slowly progress comes to a small town like theirs. But for one, psychiatrist Nicholas Drake, who finds himself expecting both a mysterious new patient and his first child, change will come, with blinding speed.