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Presidential hopeful Pranab Mukherjee is steeped in nostalgia these days, a week before he hopes to make Rashtrapati Bhavan his home. That would be very different from his first ministerial bungalow at 15, Pandit Pant Marg. Thereafter he was allotted 11, Ashoka Road, currently the Bharatiya Janata Party office. He also spent three years at 7, Talkatora Road, apart from a brief duration at 2, Jantar Mantar. But he has been living in his present home, 13, Talkatora Road, since July 1996 despite being entitled to larger accommodations, both in UPA-I and UPA-II. It’s no surprise why; his wife had put her foot down. She had had enough of shifting house with his changing posts and portfolios over the years — Union Cabinet minister, AICC functionary, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, leader of the Lok Sabha…