Bush twins write heartfelt letter to Obama sisters
BY Agencies14 Jan 2017 10:45 PM GMT
Agencies14 Jan 2017 10:45 PM GMT
In a heartwarming open letter to Sasha and Malia Obama, former first daughters Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager shared a bit of advice to the girls as they join “another rarified club, one of former First Children”.
“We have watched you grow from girls to impressive young women with grace and ease,” the Bush sisters wrote in a letter to the Obama girls.
“Now you are about to join another rarified club, one of former First Children a position you didn’t seek and one with no guidelines. But you have so much to look forward to,” it said.
“You will be writing the story of your lives, beyond the shadow of your famous parents, yet you will always carry with you the experiences of the past eight years,” the Bushes wrote. The Bush daughters, who first became familiar with the White House during the presidency of their grandfather, George H W Bush, recalled returning to the executive mansion in 2008 as young women to show the Obama girls around.
They gave them a tour of bedrooms that once belonged to them and showed them how to slide down the banister of the solarium.
“In eight years, you have done so much. Seen so much,” the Bush sisters write, noting Malia and Sasha’s meeting with Nelson Mandela in the cell where he was imprisoned for decades, as well as trips with their mother to Liberia and Morocco to speak with girls about the importance of education.
The Bush sisters stress to 15-year-old Sasha, and 18-year-old Malia, that there is much to look forward to, but urge them to keep close in their hearts the experiences of the past two terms.
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