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How True Is ‘Southside with You?’: Fact-Checking Barack and Michelle Obama’s Romantic First Date

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Writer-director Richard Tanne’s Linklater-esque romantic drama hits theaters Aug. 26. But how accurately does it depict the moment the Obamas began to fall in love?

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In the summer of 1989, future history books will teach the children of the world, 25-year-old Chicago lawyer Michelle Robinson reluctantly went on a non-date-date with a cute Harvard Law student named Barack Obama that changed America.

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