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“Something very significant happened. The book “Dreams,” heavily written by Ayers is unreliable, but it does mention “family business” that BHO Sr. was attending to with the Dunhams.”

Yes, something significant had to have happened. Throughout “Dreams”, BHO Sr. is fawned-over. Every crude behavior, every obnoxious utterance, each unpleasant trait is excused - because he was such a marvelous black man with such a lovely, sonorous voice. Why, all who were honored to be in the presence of his black awesomeness just couldn’t get enough of him. So jolly, so entertaining, so vastly more intelligent that the Dunhams - oh how fortunate to be his friend, and for Gramps Stanley, OMG he actually got to be his drinking buddy! So said Barry, in words he purports to be his.

Then came 1971, and Barry’s come - alone - to Hawaii to live with the grandparents. What had really precipitated his being sent away from Indonesia? It had not been a sudden change, as in “Dreams” page 58 [2004 paperback edition], in speaking of the ending 1971 summer and his looking forward to the start of school, Barry tells us - “I had gone for several interviews with Punahou’s admissions officer the PREVIOUS [1970] summer.”

So now to the permanent move, we need to ever so thoroughly parse those words in “Dreams”, page 62 [any caps are mine, for emphasis]:

“Nestled in the soft, forgiving bosom of America’s consumer culture, I felt safe; it was as if i had dropped into a long hibernation. I wonder sometimes how long I might have stayed there had it not been for the telegram Toot found in the mailbox one day.”

“’Your father’s coming to see you,’ she said. ‘Next month. Two weeks after your mother gets here. They’ll both stay through New Year’s’”

“She carefully folded the paper and slipped in into a drawer in the kitchen. BOTH SHE AND GRAMPS FELL SILENT, THE WAY I IMAGINE PEOPLE REACT WHEN THE DOCTOR TELLS THEM THEY HAVE A SERIOUS, BUT CURABLE, ILLNESS. FOR A MOMENT THE AIR WAS SUCKED OUT OF THE ROOM, AND WE STOOD SUSPENDED, ALONE WITH OUR THOUGHTS.”

“’Well,’ toot said finally, ‘I suppose we better start looking for a place where he can stay.’”

“Gramps took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. ‘SHOULD BE ONE HELL OF A CHRISTMAS.’”

On the day of BHO Sr’s arrival, when Barry arrives home from school, his grandmother opens the door for him and says: “There he is! Come on, Bar...come MEET your father.”

MEET? Barry’s tale has been that BHO, Sr, mother Stanley Ann, and baby Barry were the loving little family for two years, until BHO left for Harvard. Why wasn’t it “Come see your father again at last - he’s missed you so”? “MEET” is terminology applied to the first time you’re in another’s presence.

BHO Sr and Stanley Ann were in Hawaii for appx 2 months - from in Nov. till after New Year’s. “Dreams” leaves no doubt the grandparents were displeased he would be there, and that the “visit” was unpleasant and strained for all of them. The liklihood of the visit being a required legal procedure for the purpose of nullifying an Indonesian adoption seems logical. The visit’s 2-month time frame would accomodate the usual 30-day notice requirements for notice of hearing, and then final signing of documents - which would include a newly-minted/amended birth certificate. Any procedure of adoption that may have taken place involving the minor Barry - to Soetoro, reverting to BHO, Sr., or to grandparents Dunham - would require the issuance of a new birth certificate stating the [new] name. Because of Barry’s status as a minor, all records - notices, hearings, findings, orders - everything - is forever sealed by the court, and can only be acknowledged, viewed, or released by court order. If this is what happened in 1971, the Hawaii DOH cannot even know about it, let alone view any of it. There would be a birth certificate in their record - but who knows what damning things is might contain. That the Hawaii governor went blabbing to the media that all he found when attempting to produce Barry’s long form BC was some sort of written memo lends credibility to this theoretical possibility. And for Barry’s purposes and agenda, such a scenario would demand forged documents in an attempt to put the brakes on that thorny Trump and the legions of birthers. Oh, to be a fly on the wall at 1600 - and at the Hawaii DOH!