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                                                         Vickjune Excel Wutoh

    History says she was born Oct 29, 1938.

    I wasn't there to see her grow up

    I learned that her early marriage didn't stop her from going to school

    I wasn't there to see her first political struggle, but I lived to see her defy the odds

    I lived to see her inspired her fellow women to do more including this great woman ( Hillary R. Clinton of the United States of America )

    When Liberia was a no go zone to the rest of the world, I lived to see her put my country back on the world map

    I lived to see her tolerance

    I lived to hear her answer her critics (cheeking them up the real Liberian way)

    I lived to see that Gola Kru girl cajole men

    I lived to see Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Africa's first democratically elected female President

    I lived to see her story- pardon me, I meant history.