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Big day coming for Obamas: Malia graduating from high school

FILE - In this July 4, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. talks to his daughter Malia as they watch an Independence Day parade in Butte, Mont. President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia was just 10 and longing for a promised puppy when her family moved into the White House.
She’s marked some of life’s milestones in the past seven years, and another one comes Friday: graduation from high school.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
FILE - In this July 4, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. talks to his daughter Malia as they watch an Independence Day parade in Butte, Mont. President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia was just 10 and longing for a promised puppy when her family moved into the White House. She’s marked some of life’s milestones in the past seven years, and another one comes Friday: graduation from high school. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) FILE - In this July 4, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. talks to his daughter Malia as they watch an Independence Day parade in Butte, Mont. President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia was just 10 and longing for a promised puppy when her family moved into the White House. She’s marked some of life’s milestones in the past seven years, and another one comes Friday: graduation from high school. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia was just 10 and longing for a promised puppy when her family moved into the White House.

She’s marked some of life’s milestones in the past seven years, and a big one comes Friday: graduation from high school.

Malia is among 127 members of the Class of 2016 at Sidwell Friends, the elite private school in Northwest Washington that she and her sister Sasha attend.

So what’s next? Malia is taking a year for herself before enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 2017.