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Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming

by Michelle Obama
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  • Nov 13, 2018, 400 pages
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  • Mar 2021, 464 pages
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Excerpted from Becoming by Michelle Obama. Copyright © 2018 by Michelle Obama. Excerpted by permission of Crown. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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