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Yet something in his manner told me that he was curious-curious about what I had lived through and seen and survived, and about what I had learned from it all.... I wondered if it was simply an accident of our births that had bequeathed this gulf between us.... He seemed to want to hear all about how I was managing in my life, and I got the strong impression that he cared....Most of all I'd have liked to have asked him more about his memories and impressions of our father. They shared the same name-Barack Hussein Obama-and that had to signify some kind of unique bond. Were our father alive today, what would he have thought of Barack, I wondered, and what would he have thought of me? -from Homeland Book jacket.