Word: felted
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...there were kids in my neighbor ... who didn't have a father that felt that way or could even think that way, right. So you don't go to college or you don't go to the school that you wanted to go to, or when you get there you're worrying every semester about whether you can register, which were ... you know, many kids that I knew felt that way. And when I worked in the University of Chicago, I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill...
...narrow prism through which people see not just the wives but the candidates themselves. That's why it never really bothered me ... because I got these questions on the campaign trail - Well, what do you make of this and what people said about that and that? - and I always felt like, Well, they just don't know me. [Laughter.] I haven't changed. People don't change fundamentally. That, I know as a grownup. You don't change in a year...
...what's that about? It's just one place you can go where you're completely ... where you feel some level of freedom and an ability to breathe. I think every single First Lady felt that that was an important resource, an important opportunity, an important thing for the health of the family. And some found it later in their terms than others, because you get so busy. I mean, even ... you know, we don't use it as much primarily because kids have their lives here...
...Have you felt like you can breathe in this building since you've been here...
...mean, speaking with the kids ... has it been as you expected it would be? Or is it in some ways different? I had no idea what this was going to be. And I tried not to come into this with too many expectations one way or the other. I felt like part of my job - and I still feel like that - is to be open to where this needs...