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Michelle Obama shares powerful life lesson her dying mother taught her
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She was realizing that, you know, she might, she will not ever be the same old self that she was.
00:07
She was starting to realize she's coming to the end.
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And this woman that prepared me for death, right, and talked to me about all this stuff and was like,
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I'm ready to die.
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Who needs to be old people around too long?
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:24
She leaned over to me and she said, wow, this went fast.
00:28
And I held her hand.
00:31
I said, what are you talking about?
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And she said, life.
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She said, this went fast.
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And this was the woman who was ready.
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And what that told me was that even when you tell yourself you're ready, if you're living a good life,
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you're never really ready for it to end.
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