It just IS possible that the fake marriage was arranged so that the kenyan could agree to the adoption of his son by Stanley Ann Dunham as his wife. And that could be why they never lived together, and why no one saw her in Hawaii. The arrangements were all made in Seattle, and after the child was handed over, that boy also ended up where zero did. That's how the two little boys ended up being photographed sitting next to each other.
Wild? What about this story isn't? Do the dates work? I don't know, I haven't laid out every item from that file and compared it with the baby-sitter's story and the classmates 'recollections' - I'm just one individual, and the Cold Case Posse has a team. Let them do it.
Let them try to work out how it happened that the son of the kenyan whom he took to kenya with him in 1964 is sitting there next to zero, and let them work out where that photograph might have been taken. It's no use telling me that the boy on the left is someone called 'David' because that's zero. He's quite obviously less than a year younger than the dark child and anyone who still believes they could have been brothers, is a little bit blind or doesn't want to know.
The younger child Ruth is holding has to be Mark, who was born in the year after Ruth arrived in Kenya late in 1964. So that family group photograph is from 1966, when the dark boy was about five years old.
This is all putting a couple of pieces together for me. It also is another example of so many varied and seemingly unconnected actors actually being connected.
It makes total sense - SAD had to “marry” the Kenyan so she could get custody of the child who was not actually his son - the arrangement to take the son of the Kenyan 0bama’s name for Zero must have happened really early on. The arrangments being made in Seattle I had not thought of. But it does make sense that she would not be picking up this radioactive child without a plan having been formulated - for a name, for “parents”, and so on.