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We held hands, hugged, the excitement was unbelievable. No one talked. Nieces and nephews tried to get our attention but were shushed. The moment arrived - The pledge read - President-Elect Barack H Obama was finally the President. In the small TV room of our house in New Delhi, my husband and I were smiling, joyously. And then the national anthem played and reality sunk in. Hey, that's not our national anthem. Barack Obama is not our President! Such is the story of Barack Obama, the power of Barack Obama, that world over people are wistfully looking at their TV screens and wishing that he was theirs. Son of an African migrant in the US and a White mother, Obama grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia before following through his American Dream, graduating from Harvard, becoming a lawyer who worked for the neighbourhood....

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