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Many were willing to pay almost any price to get a copy without having to stand in line. One man said someone on a bus offered him $20 for his Post. A man stood at 17th and L streets last night selling copies of The Post for $5, shouting, "Barack makes history!"
At The Post, circulation officials finally closed the office doors and posted a sign saying, "SOLD OUT."
"I wanted a copy for my kids. I have a newborn son who won't remember this, but I want him to know about the history that was made here, how important this is for us as African Americans," said Samantha Crawford, 35. "I want him to hold the paper in his hand and read about it someday."
Michael Meeks, 57, stood in a long line at a newsstand in Chicago.
"I'm buying as many newspapers as I can find so I can have a little piece of [Tuesday] night to keep with me forever," said Meeks, a communications consultant from Chicago's South Side. "Every decade or so, something happens so historic that you want to be able to say, 'I was there. I was alive.' "
Staff writers Eli Saslow and Lena H. Sun contributed to this report.
