The West African nation of Liberia delcares its independence and American born Joseph Jenkins Roberts becomes its first president.
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"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water"
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