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sheshe2

(87,899 posts)

5. When they got out of the car that day...

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 03:41 PM

Dec 2016

It was watching Obama on the campaign trail, always expecting the worst and amazed that the worst never happened. It was how I’d felt seeing Barack and Michelle during the inauguration, the car slow-dragging down Pennsylvania Avenue, the crowd cheering, and then the two of them rising up out of the limo, rising up from fear, smiling, waving, defying despair, defying history, defying gravity.

I cried out for them to get back in the car.

The passages that you posted sent chills up my spine. Will go read.