Magic of 2008 didn’t last, but it left its mark
(MCT) — I saved the newspapers from the week after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, and a few days ago I fished them out of the basket, hidden behind a living room chair, where they’ve gathered dust for the past four years.
I leafed through the front pages and special sections, filled with triumphal photos and headlines, souvenirs of a victory that belonged not only to Obama, but to the city that seeded his rise to power.
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