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To: BP2
>i?Her chin had begun to tremble, and she bit down on her lip, steadying herself. She said, “Your father wrote back, saying he was going ahead with it. Then you were born, and we agreed that the three of us would return to Kenya after he finished his studies. But your grandfather Hussein was still writing to your father, threatening to have his student visa revoked. By this time Toot had become hysterical-she had read about the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya a few years earlier, which the Western press really played up-and she was sure that I would have my head chopped off and you would be taken away.

Source? Is that from one of O's books?

8,908 posted on 08/12/2009 2:30:19 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Yes, “Dreams from My Father”, 2004 edition


8,911 posted on 08/12/2009 2:36:59 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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