At 106 years old, she's seen more than a dozen presidents come and go,
but Virginia McLaurin says she can finally die happy after meeting
President Barack Obama. Video of the centenarian shaking her groove with
the president and his wife quickly went viral on the Internet after
last week's Black History Month reception at the White House.
The grandmother told The Associated Press that when she saw the
president and first lady Michelle Obama in the flesh, 'I was so happy, I
started dancing.'
'I've come a long ways, a long ways,' McLaurin said in an interview
outside her Washington home. 'I just didn't think I'd ever live to go
this far in the world.
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