When you can use your passport again.

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65. Oh, it's fiction, alright !

After an unexpected oversight, a 21st century wine nerd and frustrated physics major falls in love with a French woman born in 1832, has chats about vintage wine and history with Thomas Jefferson, and asks him for advice on his love life, whereupon Jefferson confesses that his own was rather unconventional for his time. The wine nerd does well at a job he didn't want, and gets to hire an assistant. He settles on Juanita Chang, from Guatemala. "I suppose you are fluent in Mandarin?" the wine nerd asks, meaning to make a joke. Not getting that it's a joke, Juanita Chang says, "oh no, Señor Roberto. My ex-hosban is from Hong Kong, so I only speak Cantonese." Mouth, meet foot. Oh, and her brother, Miguel, knows the secrets of Maa Shalats, which comes in handy later on in the book.

Jefferson said, "I went up to New York's Long Island with Madison. James Madison, you know?"
"Madison. JAMES Madison." President 004. Yes, I knew.

Needless to say, I had some fun with this.