Fun & Famous

JUST for THIS STORY, HILLARY SHOULD WIN

If Hillary Clinton wins the American elections, she will be the first female president ever and a new role model will be born. I recently overheard a backseat conversation between my two daughters, aged seven and four, and it went like this. “So you can be anything you want later, right?” The oldest said to the youngest. “For example, a teacher, or a doctor, or a gardener.” She continued giving unsolicited advice, and I watched with satisfaction, especially about the gardener, because if I want to give my children anything, it’s that everything that makes them happy is good, whether that’s a gardener or a president.

Nothing worse than parents who have already mapped out their child's entire career before birth, forging warm ties with a prestigious university and buying a little property in the desired city as an investment. You’re bound to get a dry addict (that’s German for drug addict) rebel, you’re just asking for it.

Hillary’s mother always instilled in her daughter that everything was good and that anything was possible. She herself was put on a train by her parents at the age of eight with her three-year-old sister. Just because they no longer wanted to take care of her. The train arrived at her grandparents' (so Hillary's great-grandparents), where she actually didn’t want to be at all.

Her second home turned out to be no home. Her grandparents routinely sent her to school without a lunchbox. But fortunately, there are angels everywhere, like her teacher who was amazed every day to find ‘way too many’ sandwiches in her own lunchbox, allowing Hillary's mother to eat her lunch without losing face.

Later, Hillary's mother worked as a cleaner for a family where her desire to learn was noticed, which helped her go to high school. In the mornings, she cleaned their house and then she could go straight to school.

Hillary's mother managed to build her own life, to receive and give love to her family. If she made it as an eight-year-old girl who was put on a train with her little sister to a life without parents and love, then her children could be anything.

Hillary's mother was born on the very day women's suffrage was introduced. How beautiful would it be if her daughter, the child of the eight-year-old girl who was put on a train with a one-way ticket by her parents, would take her oath on January 20, 2017, and become the first female president of the United States?