Young 17 year old white girls in 1960 don't normally take classes in the Russian Language and have unprotected sex with black men, then run away to Washington State for the next year thereby avoiding the father whomever he was.
That Stanley Ann did things a little screwy implies for me that you can't use usual or normal standards to suggest what she would or would not do. There is plenty of precedent for young women abandoning their children. That Stanley Ann became one of these is not remarkable.
She always kept her daughter Maya by her side. Something not right there.
Her reasons could be any number of things. Perhaps she was just taken with having a "daughter." As an only daughter (when a son was wanted) she may have wanted to give her daughter the loving attention of which she felt she had been cheated. Also, the current child was the link to her husband. Some women feel insecure without a man, and one of the ways they reinforce the connection is through the common children. The first Husband (or father) was already gone.
Also no photos of her and Barry or Barry and the grandparents or Barry and any other person until he was a toddler.
Perhaps she was too busy earning a living and going to school in Seattle during 1961, and couldn't afford film? I know it would be hard for me to work film (and a camera if she didn't already own one) into the budget were I her. I don't put much significance into a lack of baby pictures during this time of her life.
We know they had a camera because there are plenty of pictures of Stanley Anne.
I'm having a difficulty following your argument here. I only know of a few pictures of Stanley Ann, and they were taken at different intervals in her life, and very unlikely with the same camera. I would not regard what I have seen as evidence that she had regular access to a camera. Davis did, but I wouldn't say that she did.
Perhaps she was too busy earning a living and going to school in Seattle during 1961, and couldn’t afford film? I know it would be hard for me to work film (and a camera if she didn’t already own one) into the budget were I her. I don’t put much significance into a lack of baby pictures during this time of her life.
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Lame....her parents had a camera, we know that for a fact. Too busy and too poor to take photos of her first born? That is just ridiculous since we know they had cameras because there are other photos around that same time.
Young 17 year old white girls in 1960 don’t normally take classes in the Russian Language and have unprotected sex with black men, then run away to Washington State for the next year thereby avoiding the father whomever he was.
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You state those things as facts, there is no solid evidence that is true. Don’t believe everything you read in ‘Dreams’. It’s purpose was to create a past. Take everything you ever read in Dreams or heard from Obong’s blue lips, start from there.