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Clinton is the candidate many of us hoped for

When I was in second grade - that would be about 1930 - I proclaimed on the playground of the Fourth Street School in Geneva, Illinois, that I would be the first woman president in the year 2000. I'd like to say now that I was close in my claim.

2016 is not that much later than 2000. And the first woman nominated to be a major party's presidential candidate is not me, but she is a woman and also a native of Illinois.

The New York Times (July 29 editorial) said that Hillary Clinton for four decades "has worked and advocated, listened to and spoken for children, the poor and the voiceless."

I don't suppose as a second-grader that I knew that was what I was hoping for someday, a woman like Hillary Clinton. But today I know that is what I want in my next president.

Margery Frisbie

Arlington Heights

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