At 106 years old, Virginia McLaurin says she’s fulfilled a longtime dream after meeting President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during a Black History Month reception at the White House on Feb. 18.

McLaurin  told the Associated Press that when she first met the president and first lady in person,”I was so happy, I started dancing.”

Born in South Carolina in 1909, McLaurin had recently petitioned the White House on its website to organize her meeting with the president, but fell short of the 300,000 signatures needed for the Obama administration to respond. That didn’t stop, her, however, from securing an invitation to last Thursday’s reception at the executive mansion.

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