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Barack and Michelle Obama: the lovestory @ Friday, July 10, 2009

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson is the second child of Fraser and Marian Robinson. Her father, is a pump operator and Marian, a stay at home mother, raise Michelle and her brother Craig in their South Side Chicago home.

Michille joins her basketball player brother, Craig at Princeton University before graduating from Harvard Law School in 1988. She worked as a lawyer at a Chicago firm and mentored summer associate Barack Obama in 1989. She eventually falls for the Hawaii-bred community organizer turned lawyer, with whom she attends meetings in church basements. In an interview she said, "He connected with me and everyone in that church basement ...The authenticity you see is real, and that's why I fell in love with him,"

Michelle and Barack got married after three years of dating. The bride and groom choose Stevie Wonder's "You and I" for their first dance, which the President of the United States later on honestly admitted, "I think it's fair to say that had I not been a Stevie Wonder fan, Michelle might not have dated me," he said. "We might not have married. The fact that we agreed on Stevie was part of the essence of our courtship.", and of their vows, Michelle says: "Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

The couple, with their two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, went on to conquer U.S. politics as the first African American First Family.

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