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Watch This 106-Year-Old Woman’s White House Dance Party with the Obamas


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“I want to be like you when I grow up,” Michelle Obama told her.

 

 

 
 

Here’s the right way to start the week: watch this inspiring video of a special White House visit. Virginia McLaurin, a 106-year-old black woman, had dreamed of meeting President Barack Obama. More than a year ago, she recorded a YouTube video expressing her wishes to visit the White House while the nation’s first black president inhabited it.

 

Her wish was recently granted: the White House on Sunday night released a video of McLaurin dancing into a reception room to meet with Obamas, and her joy and pride is infectious. She was invited as part of the White House’s Black History Month celebrations.

 

When the president asked McLaurin if she would like to meet Michelle Obama, the centenarian began dancing over to greet the First Lady. The president, at first, appeared almost concerned about her excitement, suggesting she “slow down now.”

 

“I want to be like you when I grow up,” the First Lady told McLaurin, who said that it was an “honor” to be invited.

 

According to a Facebook page set up in her honor, McLaurin was born in 1909 in South Carolina, and moved to the nation’s capitol in 1941.

 

“I didn’t think I’d ever live to see a colored president,” McLaurin said in the video she posted in 2014. “I am so happy. I pray for you every day of my life.”

 

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/106-year-old-white-house-dancing-video

 

 

 

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