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All of the people Tony meets are just everyday people like you and I. Just like every other people they find hobbies to escape everyday life for a bit. Their hobby just so happens to be the civil war. People like Mike Hawkins, an African American textile factory worker whose great-great-grandfather served in the confederacy. Tony meets Mike while in his adventure in through the south. Tony and Mike discuss their shared obsession over the civil war. While looking at one of Mike’s old civil war book he exclaims “When I’m reading, I feel like I’m there, not here. And when I finish I feel content, like I’ve been away for a while” (Page 30). Others like Chris Daley, a Hard core reactor who also finds refuge from reality in his obsession of the civil war. “I work as a paralegal on long island,” (Page 16) he said. “I think there’s a lot of people like me who want to go to a simpler time.” (Page 16). I believe there are a lot of people just like Mike and Chris who obsess about the civil war to lose themselves from reality and immerse themselves in a great