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The entirety of an entry by susiebeeca (because there wasn't really any part that I thought could be left out), 2008-11-05:

When I was a little girl, it was anathema to think that someone like me could grow up to be the Prime Minister of Canada. After all, I was just a girl. The P.M.s were men---they were always men! It was a club with a giant 'No Girls Allowed' sign on the door!

Then, just two weeks after my ninth birthday, I saw my country being led by a woman. I cannot tell you how overjoyed I was, how inspired I was, how hopeful I felt. I remember my mother picking me up in her arms and spinning me around. A female Prime Minister! Une Mme. Premiere Ministre! God, all the raspberries I blew at the boys in my class who told me that women never amounted to anything!

 

...Now, I'm white. I have no idea what it's like to be a person of colour in America. But I still burst into tears of joy when I saw who is now taking the reins due South. I cannot imagine how many little kids of colour are starting to feel the same kind of hope that bloomed in me almost sixteen years ago.

( lj:susiebeeca, on what it means to see someone like oneself win a major election for the first time )

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