The Twisty
May. 11th, 2009 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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That photo? It makes me giddy with happiness and all twisty-chested in a good way. This is from one of the afterparties after the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night. The women on that sofa?
Katie McCormick Lelyveld, press secretary for the First Lady of the United States of America. Desiree Rogers, White House Social Secretary. Valerie Jarrett, Senior White House Advisor, one of the closest to the President (and new boss of Kal Penn) and Linda Johnson Rice, President & CEO of Johnson Publishing.
The power on that sofa, looking sharp, just smiling and chatting. Oh, the power.
Power that looks like me.
Sometimes I just have to stop and take a breath, you know?
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Date: 2009-05-11 11:21 pm (UTC)On Election Night, my best friend from Chicago called. We both agreed that while Obama winning was cool, the real kicker was that a woman who looked like us, who grew up on the South Side and went to the same high school my friend did, was First Lady of the United States. Looking at their daughters, I see myself. Sometimes it's a little overwhelming.
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