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A few minutes later, we were ushered up to Kerry’s suite, where the candidate was tucking into a huge lunch. Gone was the crisp blue suit. He’d changed into khakis and running shoes and had dropped the formal manner. By the door stood a battered guitar case. Through an open door, one could see a framed picture of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, on a bedside table. For the hour that we spoke with Kerry, he was conversational and forthright, relaxed but clearly wearing his game face.