Her name was Stanley Ann Dunham. That's how she signed her name, it's what her classmates called her. Susan Blake maintained that's how she introduced herself, and she never called herself anything else.
You just can't accept the idea that the 'mother' in 'Dreams' is the result of the blending of two women, can you?
The sole “evidence” that SAD ever called herself “Ann” is the one article from right after the election which IMHO is as bonafide as the teacher “remembering” the doctor who delivered Zero (oddly enough also right after the election) which proved to be bogus.
That, and the strange little part in “Dreams”, where the Kenyan supposedly holds some guy over the edge of the Pali for dropping his pipe. We figured that SAD being called “Ann” or “Anna” there was just in case Ann/Anna Obama was discovered.
If she hadn’t crossed the T, Stanley could have been read as Shirley.....
It is not surprising that she would have to be registered in School under her official name. I'm pretty sure she had to use her official name on any official document, but when given the chance, it's perfectly understandable that she would want to call herself "Ann" or "Anna."
You just can't accept the idea that the 'mother' in 'Dreams' is the result of the blending of two women, can you?
Sure. Show me some credible proof for it, and i'll buy it. I'm not going to reject anything that is persuasive, but on the other hand it is going to take a lot of effort to overcome the inertia of what is general accepted as fact.