We Weren’t Supposed to Win

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13 years ago this December, Benazir Bhutto — former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and candidate for the same office again at that time — was assassinated. I remember the day of the event so clearly because my entire family and I were vacationing together at Lake Malawi for Christmas, on what would turn out to be the last vacation we would all be on together for many years. Dad liked having the news on in the background all day at the cottage…