Shy teenager 'couldn't sleep a wink' before Obama speech

It's not every day you nearly upstage the most powerful man in the world.

Shy teenager 'couldn't sleep a wink' before Obama speech

It's not every day you nearly upstage the most powerful man in the world.

But it was all in week's work for a shy teenage girl who captured the public imagination with a self-penned speech welcoming the US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle to her home town.

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