"Is this Fernando?", asked my youngest son as he pointed to a campaign flier while waiting for Ferrer who was making a campaign stop with Barak Obama.
"Yes honey, that is Fernando Ferrer".
"So is he real?"
"What do you mean is he real?"
My oldest jumped in, "Is he a real person? You know, as in not an actor in a movie or something."
The question took me by surprise. It had never occurred to me they needed to meet Fernando Ferrer in order to make a connection. "Yes honey, he is a real person