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DFI< | You’ve said that while
your husband was prime minister
you felt you were in “prison,”
that your voice was “silenced.”
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D | Who would tell you “You
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come and yell at you?
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D | So the spouse is discounted
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D | What’s your advice
to Michelle Obama on that?
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D | And noncontroversial?
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D | As you’ve said, only one of
you is elected.
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