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Ms. Vermeulen Goes to Washington

Patch columnist: We can tweet our heads off, but the Twitter of hearts is a call that we all heed.

I am here because I tweet. I tweet, therefore I am.

I don't know why I was chosen to join a few dozen other of the Twitterati at the White House. No one ever really told me. I was just informed that I was of the elect.

All that I told the White House, through its online form of application, was that I was a mother of four and an inveterate tweeter. I tweet to connect to friends, to make new friends, to explore new worlds, new galaxies, to go where no minivan has gone before....

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My flight from Ronald Reagan International Airport leaves D.C. at  6 p.m. I’m sitting in the terminal trying to collect my thoughts. The 24 hours have been overwhelming. I just left the White House. Literally, just left the White House.

I was in the same room with the president of the United States. I was one of some few dozens of tweeters selected to live-tweet our nation’s first Twitter Town Hall.

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But before that, this morning, I left my house. That's the place where my husband and my four kids live, and me, too.

We live something of the American Dream, me and mine at my house. We live in a lovely community, and I have four lovely children, whom it is my job to raise.

President Obama made his first Twitter Town Hall about jobs and the economy. Jobs and the economy. Say it over and over. It's what we need.

I am blessed to live where I do and to be able to raise my lovely brood, but in a way I'm living a dream, the American Dream, that so many others don't and can't.

I hear and see on Twitter that Reps. John Boehner and Paul Ryan have tweeted the president, too. Good for them. But did they tweet solutions? Or did they use this only as an opportunity to forward their agenda, as it is called?

To be fair, was this whole affair for real, or just an opportunity for the Obama Administration to display how it embraces the new social network?

I have embraced that network. I am @Einley, and I tweet.

We were not supposed to take pictures, but please notice the accompanying photo. That is a tiny portion of my foot on the president’s carpet. How’s that for proof? Proof, I guess, that I am a part of the whole, a part of the sum of who we are.

I am @Einley, hear me roar.

I promise I will write more for my column on Friday, but I want to let everyone know that this has been an opportunity of a lifetime. Not only was I watching and listening and completely mesmerized by President  Obama, I had an opportunity to meet Jack Dorsey (@Jack) … yup, the very same guy that co-founded Twitter.

Today, I sat in a room full of historical archives: paintings, furnishings and traditions. It was surreal; you knew this was a room where great things have occurred. And today, I was a part of an epic current event … new technology was meshing with America’s history. I was there.

Me. @Einley from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

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