Heather Coit
Timothy Brumleve walks near his home in Urbana on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
URBANA – Timothy A. Brumleve is sitting in his haven.
The razor-thin Brumleve, wearing a dirty brown jacket and work pants, is in the cramped basement of his Urbana home. He's surrounded by old televisions and videocassette recorders. A bare bulb provides light, and an old desk chair with a collapsed back provides seating.
On metal shelves, long cardboard boxes of videotapes are piled on top of each other. "Jews," "New York" and "Oklahoma" are some of the titles on the boxes.
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