It just occurred to me - in 1961, it was VERY common for pregnant girls to "visit an aunt" in another city so their condition would not be noticed. A trip to Seattle would fit nicely with this very common practice.
I'm not sure that BHO knocked up SAD. I think she got pregnant, knew (or feared) the child would be black, THEN had sex with BHO and convinvced him to "marry" her. When he found out she was 4 months pregnant two months after they had sex, he split. For good.
He never acknowledged paternity until, desperate to extend his visa, he mentioned Barry (in 1964).
I think he always doubted paternity, or knew he couldn't be the father.
I will go with that twist - easily.
At first I thought looking through the BHO INS records was - can it get any weirder? But now it is making sense. It actual help tell the story.
Legally, the die is cast via the 1964 divorce. For that to get filed, approved, processed, etc. the records in Hawaii had to be ‘cleaned up’ at that time. Seattle, Canada, Hawaii in a home birth - who knows. But whatever it was was scrubbed and cleaned up then.
I wonder just who the father is...? I'd imagine he wonders too.