More than 24 hours before Hillary Clinton’s signing of Hard Choices at University Book Store, people started lining up. The first was a woman in a panda suit. I didn’t interview the panda, but she’d already achieved momentary fame, including an interview on local public radio. She wasn’t allowed to wear the suit to meet Clinton, and by the time of the signing, employees had stashed the suit behind the sales counter. “We’ll be happy to get your panda suit back to you,” a bookseller said, and, turning to me, confided, “That’s the weirdest sentence I’ve said all day.”

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