Michelle Obama takes her first solo trip in the neighborhood.

"I was raised to believe that when you get, you give back," Michelle Obama told a group of 13 high school students Tuesday afternoon. She was visiting Mary's Center, a community health organization in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The kids wanted to know why she'd made the milelong trip north. "We were taught you have to get to know the community you're in, and you have to be a part of that community. Barack is real busy right now, so I figured I've got the time on my hands and while the kids are in school, I figured I would come out and hear about programs and meet students."

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