Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged with me standing here as the First

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged with me standing here as the First Michelle Obama Quotes

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

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