I agree. This is why I think she would have come home to mommy in Hawaii to have her baby. And in 1961 people were grown-ups at 18. Ten years or so later, I was pregnant, at age 19, and a daddy at 20. A single dad at 22 for a number of years. That was just the way things were.
I remember the week in the hospital, stuff. And starting college with a 3 week old? And in those days college was not the fluff ball it is today. Did she leave O with her mom? Do we know?
parsy.
My first reaction--she was there, but not the baby--just too darned complicated, would have left him behind with grandma in the usual and natural scheme of things, in Hawaii where mixed-race children are not unusual even in 1961.
Jack Cashill, who did a lot of work with the fascinating question of whether Bill Ayers actually wrote "Dreams"--has had a lot of fun playing with this particular fact about Seattle and the whole birth conspiracy. When chasing down a mystery, the calendar is your best friend. His stuff is on American Thinker.