Plants don't do very well in my home. They don't fuss at me when I forget to water them.

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Raising children is similar to nurturing plants, Obama said.

"They're a bamboo or they're an oak or they're a chestnut," Obama said on stage. "They all need water, sunlight, some TLC, but how they grow and what pace, when the branches sprout, when they flower at any given time, it's just different. And so, our daughters were different, and as they got older, they became identifiable."

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His kids didn't become identifiable until they got older? How much time was he spending with them?


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