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nice one Beth! 🤗🤗💖💖
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I saw this yesterday. What a great story!
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i loved it
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Wonderful!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Awesome 👏🏼
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makes her victory even sweeter
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Very true. It is inspiring on so many levels
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Excellent!!
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<3
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Oh, wow, this is giving me goosebumps. Thanks for sharing this, Beth!
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my pleasure –
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I saw this yesterday, too. It is worth sharing and re-sharing!
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exactly what i thought too!
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💞
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👏👏👏
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makes her win even more amazing
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Agreed
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Great!
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I didn’t know this. As excited as I was initially, I am even more excited now. Thank you for sharing this historical info, this accomplishment.
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exactly the same with and when i saw it, i knew that it needed to be shared –
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This makes me cry with joy. 🥰
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same-
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One of the most stunning, fabulous stories coming out of this election! 😄
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and there are so many great ones, i’m sure we’ll learn as we get people sworn in
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Such an extraordinary story, and thankfully, one with a terrific ending. Or is it a beginning !?!
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i see it as a beginning, great point –
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What a wondeeful story!
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Made the wins even sweeter
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I hadn’t heard that before. Amazing! Wonderful!
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Wow, that is amazing.
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yes, another amazing thing to come from this election
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That’s for sure. We are all cheering from Australia, well some of us.
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Thank you!
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Thanks for bringing this story to us, Beth. It’s too bad Sheppard wasn’t around to see what happened.
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you’re right, imagine how full his heart would b
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I heard Governor-Elect Bottoms talking about her great-great grandparents. It’s all so inspiring!
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one great thing after another
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I’m eagerly awaiting Scott Colom being declared the first Black Mississippi Senator since the Reconstruction, having defeated the bitter racist incumbent who refused to let him become a judge. Karma at its finest!
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yes, there are so many great firsts and karma winners
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What a sweet full circle moment!
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That’s great!
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great history
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WHOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!! :)
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<3
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A next level US history lesson right there. All the applause emojis for this.
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it is such an amazing story
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She definitely made history.
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so many amazing stories behind these wins
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Indeed.
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This is awesome. This is the sort of news I like hearing.
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it made me so happy to see and one reader added that her father was soul singer, Major Lance
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Major Lance?.. I googled some of his songs. He was quite a popular singer. What a family legacy.
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Not only that, but her father was soul singer Major Lance, who had hits like “The Monkey Time” and “Um, Um, Um, Um, Um.”
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amazing
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