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The New Knights - Chapter 3-6

  Is that... Jimmy Carter?

  That`s frickin` Jimmy E. Carter, standing right over there with some secret service bodyguards around him. What the hell is he doing here?

  This dude is a living legend, the icon of progress and peace within Georgia. He was Governor here in the seventies, back when it was still a state. Then he was the 39th/41st President of the United States, the one who basically helped keep the country together for a few extra years before it collapsed completely thanks to his successors. Then he even served as Georgia`s first President for six months (not that that job is anything but ceremonial).This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author`s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.

  Still, he`s already in his late eighties, and yet he`s still going at it, getting a Nobel Peace Prize a few years back for solving the Korean Crisis. This guy basically prevented World War III.

  And... he`s standing here, like fifty feet away from me, with almost no fanfare. He`s staring at his convention map, looking like he`s just wandering the place. I`ve only been to this tech expo a couple times before, when Mark used to come up from Tallahassee for business meetings, but I certainly don`t remember a former President of the United States attending.

  He`s not being stealthy or anything. He`s even got the little American flag pin that they always put on for public events.

  Should I...

  Could I even....

  Would it be proper to...

  Like, could I just... go up and talk to him?

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