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Michelle Obama's mother Marian Robinson dies at 86

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Michelle Obama and her mother Marian Robinson at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 6, 2012. [AFP]

Marian Robinson, the mother of former first lady Michelle Obama, who moved into the White House with the first family, helping care for her young granddaughters and providing a stabilizing presence in one of the world's most stressful residences, died Friday, her family said.

"We needed her. The girls needed her. And she ended up being our rock through it all," her family said in a statement. Robinson was 86.

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