Yesterday, the 3rd of April, Karel Schwarzenberg held an autograph signing session of his newly released book, dedicated to his 75th birthday. I went there to finally stand face to face to the man, whom I grew fond of in the progress of presidential elections. I would lie if I said I wasn´t nervous, because I was. As hell. I had this little gem heart made for him several months prior, hoping to eventually give it to him. I bought his book and queued patiently, until he made his appearance. There were many people present, including television reporters, actors, singers and writers, all of them acompanying this great man. I made few photographs of himself while he was signing the books. Some people even gave him little presents in the form of flowers and paper clippings inside a book, over which he seemed to express enourmous joy. When I reached him, and while he was signing my book, I passed him the little red box in which I had the gem heart neatly hidden, with words "Hello Prince, happy birthday to you. This is for all what you´re doing for us". He stopped to ask me again what I just said, as he is slightly hard of hearing, then he opened up the box and rolled the heart in his hand inspecting it closely, then saying...."but this is......" and I stood by and stopped him short "That´s a brooch Sir". Then he said "That´d be fit for some beautiful young lady, not for me, I´ll be hardly wearing that on", and with these words he scanned me to have a look at who he´s talking to. His eyes smiled warmly at me, and I felt unsure wheather he actually liked the gift or did not so much. For a while I thought he might give it back to me, but then he set it aside his desk and thanked me with a smile on his face. I told him that it has been designed specially for him. With that I left the desk and later on collected myself to go home, but watched him carefully if he took the box with him. He certainly did. He carried this huge paper bag with him and there, he kept all the presents he obtained, with them my own. Only after coming home I realized, that I actually congratulated him to birthday that he´s had in December. Oh, what a clown I am, seriously. I just hope he never heard me saying it. But overal it was a pleasant experience and I´m glad I gathered the courage to give him the present and speak to him in public like that.
One more thing before I finish this story. I still believe this man would make an incredible President, as he is the statesman of high qualities and there is none such like him around. I enormously admire his work, good will and for all he´s been doing for our country in abroad. He deserves the best appraisal of all. He won millions of hearts and the heart I gave him that day was a symbolic way of saying how much he means to all of us. I hope he knows now.
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