![]() ![]() I did a stretch in Iowa and in South Carolina. TIME: You worked on his campaign, correct? We just started talking as though we’d known each other always, and that was actually something really special. I was very nervous and worried about not connecting immediately and then having to be in his home-because I was going to be staying with him. TIME: You met the President initially in Chicago when he was a community organizer. She would send photos, so I had photos of Barack. And my father and his mother were in touch, so she would send his school reports to my father because my father was a very keen advocate of education. He made that clear right from the beginning that he’s Barack. My father used to call him Barry, we all called him Barry, which he doesn’t really like, so we don’t call him that anymore. TIME: Did you father talk about the President while you were growing up? TIME spoke with the President’s sister as she began her book tour in New York City. Now, Auma, 52, has advanced the story with her own compelling memoir, And Then Life Happens (St. The President later brought Auma to public attention when he wrote about her in his bestselling book, Dreams from My Father. Barack Obama and Auma Obama, his older half-sister (by one year) finally met face to face in 1984 when they were both in their 20s. But they had a major tie: they shared the same father. They could have easily spent their lives never crossing paths. Follow was born in Kenya he was born in Hawaii. ![]()
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