Michelle Obamahas endured, and triumphed over, more hardships than most of us will in a lifetime.

But she revealed that the death of her beloved father impacted her unlike any other loss in her life.

…Food tastes like nothing.

Michelle Obama

Music hurts, and so do memories.

Grief is so lonely this way."

AsTodayrevealed, Fraser Robinson III was just 55 years old when he died in 1991.

Michelle Obama

His loss is my scar," she admitted.

“But let me tell you something, his memory drives me forward every single day of my life.

Every day, I work to make him proud.”

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