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DreamShare #1: Obama Care

Obama has come to Cisco, Bangalore, as a part of inaugurating a certain technology department. So I go there as well hoping to catch a glimpse. Once all the fan fare is over he quietly goes out from the back and sits on the floor in the balcony staring at the stars, expecting no one. I accidentally bump into him and apologize. As I am about to go so that he could have his privacy back, he asks me to stay. I stay and we make a small talk, but fantastically the small talk snowballs into a good conversation. He asks me, do I want to have dinner with him, I say sure. While we are walking by the backdoor exit, we find a good corner to sit and have our dinner, he opens his brief case and apparently his wife has prepared him a ham sandwich. I tell him, I haven’t brought my dinner from home, so he shares a bite with me. We finish our dinner and he thinks of breaking the protocol a little more, he says lets sneak out for a walk. I just keep nodding along for whatever he asks. And as we ar...