A remarkable sentence structure! The core of it is "another letter arrived in Kenya". What a strange passivity about that phrase, and it bears no subject-verb relationship to the "they wed". It is not "the lovebirds sent another letter", that would be clear and unambiguous. Instead the letter goes of its own volition, arriving whenever it chooses, being a letter of self-reliance, evidently.
And no date for the wedding. So nebulous!
Yet then at the end a switcheroo ... clear and firm, imperative almost -- "Barack!", born on exactly the 4th of August 1961!
That's a special pleading, eh?
That was only the first surprise. Stanley Ann began classes at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and shortly after that, Box received a letter saying that her friend had fallen in love with a grad student. He was black, from Kenya and named Obama.
About that same time, another letter crossed the Pacific, this one heading to Africa. It was from Barack Obama Sr. to his mother, Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama. Though the letter didn't go into great detail, it said he had met a young woman named Ann (not Stanley). There wasn't much on how they met or what the attraction was, but he announced their plans to wed.
Gotta run...darn chicken won't flip itself on the grill!
Good points.
“And no date for the wedding. So nebulous!”
Feb 2, 1961.