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Photo: President Obama Greets 109-Year-Old Emma Primas With A Kiss

"I didn't think I'd ever see what I'm looking at now." - Emma Primas on meeting President Obama


Being 109-years-old has its perks, and yesterday Texas native Emma Primas enjoyed a big one: a kiss from President Obama before the Easter prayer breakfast held in East Room of the White House.

"I didn't think I'd ever see what I'm looking at now," she said.

During election season last November, Mrs. Primas said she worried about the haters who oppose President Obama, observing:

"Even though they are giving him a hard time he is sticking in there." Then she urged people to rally around the beleaguered president, scolding, "People should get out and vote. It makes a difference. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be trying to do everything to stop you from voting. So it just makes sense to vote. Just don't sit there."

According to the Houston Sun, voting has always been an important issue to Mrs. Primas, who told reporters:

"Soon as blacks were allowed to vote, I voted in California. You just had to be 18 there and nothing else. So when I knew I was moving back to Houston, I bought my poll taxes so I could vote in Houston."

But Mrs. Primas admits she never thought she'd see the day the U.S. elected a black president. Yesterday, that black president she dared not dream of greeted her with a kiss.

Here's White House photographer Pete Souza's official photo of the meeting: