In 1976, jimmy carter won the presidential race in part because he:

Jimmy Carter won and beaten the incumbent Gerald Ford in the 1976 Presidential Election by a narrow margin. Both candidates bungled during their televised debates. Although a dark horse candidate, Carter presented himself as a reformer and an untainted candidate, which was important at that time when the nation still remembers the Watergate Scandal. Ford’s pardoning of Nixon and refusal to explain grounds to do so hurted his public image a lot. The results were pretty close, as Carter won 287 electoral votes while Ford finished with 240.

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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