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Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting?

— Barack Obama

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Marriage advice to Dan Pfeiffer in Yes We Still Can, chapter 9, (19 June 2018); as quoted in "Barack Obama says these are the three questions you must ask someone before you marry them", by Narjas Zatat, The Independent, (7 July 2018).

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