My aunt Pauline who is 99 years old called me yesterday.
She lives in South Dakota and is first generation American from German parents. She is conservative and always votes Republican. She has not ventured too far away from Long Lake, South Dakota although they lived in Oregon for about 20 years. She loved her husband til the day he died and I'm sure she wishes he was still with her.
I doubt she has ever been near a computer, she doesn't blog, tweet or google. I'm sure to her, President Obama is a curiousity and his age more than his race is a concern. But yesterday when she called she commented on the inauguration and she said about Obama "he has a very pretty family." You know why I like this so much? I know she is unsure about him as a president but as an older American she knows she needs to speak well of our President and she also wanted to say something nice about him because she knows I voted for him. It makes me love her even more because she's trying so hard to be generous and diplomatic. That's how people of her generation are. Maybe the rest of us will start acting like that now that we have optimism and new leadership and ... hope.
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