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Elderly Nun Endorses Obama

106-year-old sister registers to vote.

As if John McCain needed more bad news, Barack Obama may be winning over a constituency that hits the 72-year-old Republican close to home: old people. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a 106-year-old American nun living in Rome, has registered to vote for the first time since 1952 and she’s voting for Obama. “I've never met him,” she says, “but he seems to be a good man with a good private life.” Sadly, even a victory for her preferred candidate will not lure her home. “I am too old to go back to the U.S.,” Sister Gaudette says. “Life has changed too much.”

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