In 1960, the year that my parents were married,
I thought they were married in Feb. 1961?
Between the ages of six and ten, I lived in Indonesia where my mother had moved with her second husband.So, where was he living when he was 10? in Indonesia or Hawaii? And if his mother sent him back to his grandparents in Hawaii, who is the "us" his father came to visit?When I was sent back to my grandparents in Hawaii for my education, I was greeted at school with a loud hoot from other pupils, like the sound of a monkey. A ruddy-faced boy asked me if my father ate people.
When I was ten, my father came back from Africa to visit us for Christmas. After a week of my father in the flesh, I decided that I preferred his more distant image, an image I could alter on a whim - or ignore when convenient. If my father hadn’t exactly disappointed me, he remained something unknown, something volatile and vaguely threatening.
We stand together in front of the Christmas tree and pose for pictures, the only ones I have of us together, me holding an orange basketball, his gift to me, him showing off the tie I’ve bought him. He stayed a month, then he was gone.His mother returned when he was 15 (1976)? I thought they divorced in 1972?The next five years were a placid time marked by the usual rites and rituals that America expects from its children, part-time jobs at the burger chain, acne and driving tests.
My mother separated from her Indonesian husband, Lolo, and returned to Hawaii with my sister, Maya, and I moved in with her..
**placemarker**
I think most of what you might be looking for, you will find on THE OBAMA FILE: (FAMILY)
They separated in 1972. The divorced around 1980