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\"I hope you'll use this journal to write down your experiences, thoughts, and feelings, in all their imperfections, and without judgment,\" Obama writes in the journal's introduction. \"We don't have to remember everything. But everything we remember has value.\"

\"Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice\" will be released Nov. 19 in the U.S. and Canada.

\"Becoming\" turned into not just a bestselling book but a world tour for Obama, whose book tour consisted of stops in major arenas around the globe during which the former first lady was interviewed by high-profile people including Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon and Oprah Winfrey.

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\"Becoming\" is an in-depth, personal look at Obama's life before, during and after her family's eight years in the White House.

She described the release of the memoir last November as exciting but also \"a little unnerving.\"

\"I'm talking about me, all of me, in a way that I do with my friends, my girlfriends,\" she told ABC News' Robin Roberts. \"Now I'm talking about it with the world. It's not that I'm nervous about my story but I hope that it inspires people and it encourages people and it starts a conversation.\"

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