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Mon 01 Jan 2009Old interview gives new insights on America's soon to be First Family
The unassuming Obamas were so 'ordinary' they were edited out of a 1996 book entitled 'Couples in America', writes Lara Marlowein Paris
IT IS like stepping back in time, to an afternoon in November 1996 when Barack and Michelle Obama were not famous, not president-elect and imminent first lady, just an ordinary, up-and-coming young professional couple who agreed to meet the photographer Mariana Cook for her book, entitled Couples in America.
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