"There was no way I was going to go to President Barack Obama's inaugural," I thought. Yet as the person who offered my wife, Yleem, and me the tickets, I knew that I would need to prepare myself as there was no chance we could turn down his offer. And so, off we were a few weeks later to attend the swearing-in and parade for the 44th president of the…
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