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Dear Sasha and Malia ...

The Bush sisters returned to the White House in 2012 for the unveiling of the official portrait of their father

MALIA AND SASHA, EIGHT YEARS AGO on a cold November day, we greeted you on the steps of the White House. We saw both the light and wariness in your eyes as you gazed at your new home. We left our jobs in Baltimore and New York early and traveled to Washington to show you around. To show you the Lincoln Bedroom, and the bedrooms that were once ours, to introduce you to all the people—the florists, the groundskeepers and

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