My story isn’t hearsay, but no one cares, really.
I realize I'm a nobody in flyover country, but I care and always found your story to be both intriguing and believable.
Your story is a notable non-hearsay claim that Barry spoke to you directly, but your claim that Barry said he was born in Mombasa IS hearsay as to where he was born, not that he said it.
You have no direct knowledge of where Barry was born, only direct knowledge that Barry told you he was born in Mombasa. If you and Barry were in court and he denied he ever said it your testimony would be negated as a “he said, she said” conflict of testimony. More direct non-hearsay evidence (direct witness testimony or documents) that Barry was born in Mombasa would be needed to prove that birth location in court.
While I find your recollection to be plausible, IIRC, you are also on the record initially as saying that you could not be completely confident that it was Barry who told you he was born at Mombasa, Kenya. You said that it was after the fact that it made sense circumstantially that it was him.
This initial waffling by you over whether you remember specifically talking to Barry would weaken any direct non-hearsay testimony you could give that you talked directly him.
In trying to reconstruct Barry’s evolving claims regarding his life-narrative it is important to know where he claimed to be born at different times and places. Your story lends support to a data-point that in 1980 (IIRC that was when you talked to him) Barry was claiming to have been born in Mombasa. I think your story is plausible and notable, even though not courtroom evidence-worthy.
I care; never doubted it, and your story adds to the bigger picture, another piece to the puzzle.
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