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This is the weirdest story ever. None of it makes much sense to me. Why would she leave Hawaii and head to WA with a newborn baby and without her new husband? That makes no sense or am I missing something here? It makes a lot more sense to me that she didn't give birth in Hawaii.
There must be some missing pieces to the puzzle. If she and Sr. went to Kenya and she had Jr. there, why wouldn't he have been with her in WA when they returned. When was the last know date that she was in Hawaii prior to the birth of Jr. or do we not know that? Did they break up right after the birth so she took off to WA? I'm totally confused, nothing adds up.
This has nothing to do with the bc but another thing that is extremely odd to me is that there isn't a SINGLE picture of Jr. with parents or grandparents when he was a baby. NONE. Also there isn't a single picture of him with a girl EVER except Michelle. He is always with guys. All these guys have come forth and talked about knowing him but no ex girlfriends? His friends never speak of him dating any girls. His entire life is this strange mystery that makes no sense.

there isn't a single picture of him with a girl EVER except Michelle. He is always with guys.

I've made the same observation.

There is an anecdote in "Dreams...," -- "...after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around."

That doesn't necessarily mean the "white woman" was a woman, or that it ever happened. Obama admits in the introduction of "Dreams.." he uses pseudonyms, composite characters, approximated dialogue and events out of chronological order.

It's a novel, not an autobiography.

After Ann finished the first term at UH at Manoa the next widely reported sighting of her is with a newborn Jr on Mercer Island. We know she was staying with a friend of her mother but do not know the woman’s name. We also know she did not return to Hawaii as some have thought because of her name appearing in the 1961 City Directory. I believe she was sent away by her parents before she gave birth to avoid the embarrassment of her situation but wanting to protect their daughter’s “honor” and legitimize the situation they registered the birth in Hawaii which generated the birth announcement in the papers.(Once the baby was born all it would take was a phone call to her parents) We know that of all the graduate students that hung around with Obama Sr the only one who claims to have known both Ann and Obama Sr is Neil Abercrombie.Neil may have known Ann more after she returned to Hawaii in 1963 and lived near where Neil was living. Hal Abercrombie, Pake Zane and Arnie Nachmanoff do not mention knowing Ann at all. We have also seen photos of Obama Sr at parties in 1961 and Ann is not in attendance. We have been told that Ann and Obama Sr were in the same Russian language class which had a total of 20 students in it and yet we have never seen any testimony from any of the other 18 students in the class. When journalists began writing articles, they interviewed a student who had been in the Russian language class a few years later. The other 18 students who were in the same class as Ann and Obama Sr cannot all be dead.