The couple married in
Wailuku on
Maui on February 2, 1961,
[9][10] and separated when, in late August 1961, Obama's mother moved with their newborn son to attend the
University of Washington in Seattle for one year. In the meantime, Obama, Sr. completed his undergraduate economics degree in Hawaii in June 1962, then left to attend graduate school at
Harvard University on a scholarship. Obama's parents divorced in March 1964.
[11] Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964 where he remarried; he visited Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971.
[12] He died in an automobile accident in 1982 when his son was 21 years old.
[13]
So when did he leave them, hater dupes? Was it when he divorced her? Then it was 2 years...nice spin dumbass- split hairs much?