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Gazette reporter met the president at a function, Biden then used his phone to take a photo

Editor’s note: Through family connections, Gazette sports writer Aleksei Pavloff recently had an opportunity to attend a White House function and meet President Joe Biden. Regardless of your political leaning, the chance to interact with a sitting U.S. president is a special event. Below he shares a first-person account of the trip.

––– My mom is one cool person.

That’s the first thing that comes to mind after I got back to Delaware, Ohio after a recent brief day trip to Washington, DC.

What happened was not on the top of my list as far as what I was expecting. A couple weeks prior, my mother, …

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