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  • Born in Seoul, South Korea, on the day that Bill Clinton first took office, and later adopted by a U.S. family, Matthew Wood voted in his first U.S. presidential election this past November.

  • Obama's second inaugural is not expected to be the same windfall as the first.

  • Justin Daugherty, a guitarist and environmentalist living in Austin, Texas says his inauguration birthday adds to his sense of social responsibility.

  • Ciara McDonald will always remember where she was during Barack Obama's inauguration — at the hospital giving birth to her second son, Ronan.

  • A sign is seen at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on November 7, 2008 as work gets underway in preparation for the January 20, 2009 inauguration of then president-elect Barack Obama.
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    Marketplace and the Annenberg School at USC are looking for everyday citizens to share their stories of how life has changed since the day they were born — and a president was sworn in.

Inauguration Day