A 106-year-old woman has fulfilled her dream of meeting US President Barack Obama at the White House.
In 2013, when Washington DC resident Virginia McLaurin was honoured — at the age of 104 — for volunteering for 40 hours a week with students with severe mental and physical disabilities, she said she had just one wish — to meet Mr Obama.
“I didn’t think I’d live to see a black president,” she said, according to NBC Washington.
Three years later, that dream has come true for Ms McLaurin.
She was invited to the White House for 2016’s Black History Month celebrations, where she met Mr Obama and the First Lady, Michelle Obama.
The White House posted a video of the meeting on Facebook, during which the exuberant Ms McLaurin started dancing with the President and the First Lady, prompting Mr Obama to ask: “What’s the secret to still dancing at 106?”
Ms Obama told Ms McLaurin: “I want to be like you when I grow up.”
“You can,” Ms McLaurin said in reply.
Ms McLaurin said meeting Mr Obama was an honour.
“I thought I would never live to get in the White House, and I tell you, I am so happy. A black president. A black wife. And I’m here to celebrate black history,” she said.
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