With thanks to my colleagues on the County Health Team, I had the good fortune this week to meet Liberia’s president, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first woman head of state. Nervous and nearly tongue-tied, I managed to spit out “It isn’t often that a man has the opportunity to meet face-to-face one of his heroes, and it is my great privilege.” Having been introduced as a Peace Corps Volunteer, the president kindly took my hand (or did I take hers?) and said, “Thank you for serving.”
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