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There are many things first ladies can't do while they're in the White House , including evading their Secret Service protection. The same restrictions are put on the president's children , which, according to Michelle Obama, made for a very complicated upbringing for her daughters, Malia and Sasha. But the constantly looming armed protection didn't stop Obama from keeping her security detail on their toes.

In her 2018 memoir, "Becoming," the former first lady recalled the time she and Malia snuck out of the presidential residence for an evening. Per her telling, Obama came back from a funeral service for the victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, when she peered out her window and saw the White House lit up with a

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