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In a moving Instagram post, Michelle Obama reflected on the loss of her mother, Marian Robinson, who died Friday, May 31, at the age of 86. The former first lady and her family eulogized Robinson and the vibrant life she led in a statement, received first by NBC News and later posted on Michelle and Barack Obama's Instagram pages. Accompanying the statement on Instagram was Michelle Obama's touching caption, calling her mom her 'rock.
With a healthy nudge, she agreed to move to the White House with Michelle and Barack. We needed her. The girls needed her, and she ended up being our rock through it all,” the family statement reads in part. “There was and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our sadness, we are lifted up by the extraordinary gift of her life. And we will spend the rest of ours trying to live up to our example.
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