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Michelle Obama shared a similar series of images on Instagram as well.

\"Happy anniversary to the man I love!\" she wrote in the caption. \"These last 30 years have been an adventure, and I'm grateful to have you by my side. Here's to a lifetime together. I love you, Barack Obama!\"

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In her memoir \"Becoming,\" the former first lady wrote that she first met her future husband when she was assigned as his mentor at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. She said that she was initially too focused on her law career and wasn't interested in dating, but that his insistence changed her mind. She wrote that he first kissed her at a Chicago ice cream shop.

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\"When we stopped for ice cream and he got the sense that I was starting to open up, he played it real smooth,\" she told \"Good Morning America\" anchor Robin Roberts in 2018. \"He just leaned in for a kiss. And that really was it. You know, from that kiss on… it was love. And he was my man.\"

The two became engaged in 1991 and eventually married on Oct. 3, 1992, in Chicago. They have two children together, Sasha and Malia Obama.

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