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Vote: How great is this?

November 4th, 2008 at 08:00am Linda Grist Cunningham

Standing in line at First Free church with a couple hundred good folks all ready to do one thing: vote today. the line at 6:20 a.m. is 20 minutes long. By 6:45, it’s headed for an hour. It will be like this all day.
And no one minds. Smiles and friendly chatter among young and old, black, white, Asian and Latino. I feel the electric air. Everyone here knows it’s a day they will talk about the rest of our lives.
Where were you when ….
I am almost there. Ten minutes max. My turn…

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