There was a brief time - right after he was born and his father abandoned them.
It didn’t take long for her to take up with Lolo Soetero.
She was not a single mother during this time - and her husband had a good income.
And then he was shipped back to Hawaii - raised by grandparents - who also had a good income.
This narrative about spending his childhood with a struggling single mom is a lie.
Well the truth definitely has no inherently saccharine pathos or angst so we’ll just ‘edit’ it a bit, shan’t we?
LOL