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"I don't bake cookies," Laura Bush says now, after three years of wrestling with how she will define and be defined by the mantle of first lady, a job with pressures but no instructions and a title she says she detests.
Oh, and she just loves her live gay friends who should "welcome the debate" about whether or not discrimination should be enshrined in the constitution.
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She defended her husband's call for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages, while acknowledging that she and her husband have gay friends. "They ought to welcome the debate," she said of gays who saythe amendment would relegate them to second-class citizenship.