This is a podcast from the BBC World Service with American Public Media.

When Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States,

the countdown of his first 100 days in office began.

It's a milestone applied to every modern president, and the BBC World Service and American Public Media decided to market with a unique project. As political experts and media commentators came up with

their assessment, we handed it over to you. All you had to do was use a smartphone

with a voice recorder and email us a sound file telling us your story of the

first 100 days of the Trump presidency.

From West Virginia to Kansas City to San Antonio and Boise, Idaho, we took a ground-level view of what matters to Americans during a time of unprecedented change.

I'm Shaima Khalil and this is the response, America's story. And we'll begin with one woman's very specific reaction to the election of

Donald Trump. She got married. I'm Kate and I live in I'm I'm

I live in Ipsoani, Michigan. My partner and I have been together 23 years. We're a lesbian couple and the election happened and suddenly it was like,

crap, we can't wait and we're just getting married right now. I didn't even want to wait until the

inauguration. I basically gave my partner to be some phone calls like what do you do?

Oh you get a marriage

license so she found out well hey we could get married to the City Hall the mayor

can marry us it was just like the easiest and fastest thing to do I tried to like

find something to wear, you know, something pretty.

I said it was before but it was repeating now. I just wore like a black skirt and a nice blouse. I mean that's what I had so that's what I wore.

I didn't think I would feel any different because we've been together 23 years and

I felt really married but I did feel really different. I mean we had to sign

papers, the mayor was there, there were witnesses, I mean it was just very

official and suddenly you have the sense that I'm just like heterosexual

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