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This timeline is even MORE precise:

    June 1960 -- Ann moved to Hawaii with Parents (exact date unknown)
    Sept 1960 -- Ann started classes at U of Hawaii (exact date: Sept. 26, 1960)
    Oct 1960 -- Got pregnant by Obama SR
    Feb 1961 -- Married Obama SR (Feb. 2, 1961)   ANN'S EXACT AGE: 18 years, 2 months, 5 days
-- a big, six-month void --
    Aug 1961 -- Gave birth to Obama JR on Aug. 4, 1961 (reportedly in Hawaii and on that date)   ANN'S EXACT AGE: 18 years, 8 months, 7 days
    Aug 1961 -- Sighting by Susan Blake in late-August on Mercer Island, Seattle (Obama Jr reportedly 3 weeks old) -- SHE'S TRAVELING FROM HAWAII TO SEATTLE, in 1961, WITH A 3-WK-OLD, only to ship the baby BACK to start classes in Seattle? Highly doubtful ...
    Fall 1961 -- Attended classes in Seattle at University of Washington (see transcripts below), but not with University of Hawaii in Spring of 1961 -- possible BREAK in Hawaiian Residency status, depending on when she left Hawaii
    Fall 1961 -- a Listing for Stanley Ann Obama appears in the 1961 Polk directory at the Seattle Public Library: "Obama Anna Mrs studt h516 13th Ave. E. apt. 2"
    1961-1962 -- Anna Obama phone listing, as listed in Seattle Reverse Directory, 1961-1962: "Obama Anna Mrs EA3-3346" at "516 Villa Ria Apartments"
    Mar 1962 -- Mary Toutonghi babysat Obama Jr at Ann Dunham (aka Anna Obama) apartment for two months (through May 1962)
    Sum 1962 -- Sighting by John W. Hunt in June-Sept 1962 "I had moved to Utah for a while after high school, and I came back to Seattle in the summer of 1962. I remember visiting the World's Fair, and then stopping by Stanley Ann's apartment on Capitol Hill. It was a small apartment, upstairs. It was after June, and could have been as late as September, 1962. I visited her for half a day or so. It was after the end of the spring quarter classes, and she wasn't in classes, and didn't have a job. I recall her being melancholy at the time. I had a sense that something wasn't right in her."
    Fall 1962 -- Ann Dunman is no longer registered for classes at University of Washington
    Fall 1962 -- Obama SR begins school at Harvard, in Boston, Mass.
    Sept-Dec 1962 -- Ann moves back to Hawaii, with baby Obama, to live with parents
    Spring 1963 -- Ann Dunham resumes school back at University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Jan 1964 -- Ann Dunham files for divorce in Hawaii Court
    Mar 1964 -- Divorce is granted (Obama SR does not respond to divorce notice in Boston)

curiosity has it backwards; it's not Ann that wanted to have nothing to do with Obama Sr., it was Obama Sr. that wanted as little to do with Ann as possible. If you read the various news articles that came out during the couple of years before the election containing recollections of Obama Sr.'s friends about their time at the University of Hawaii, the impression one gets is that the interest in the relationship was pretty much one-way.

Regarding Mary Toutonghi's recollection about Ann and Barry in Seattle in 1962:

Toutonghi was living in Seattle at the time, in the early 1960s. Her husband was going to school at Seattle University, and she was a stay-at-home mom with their 18-month-old daughter.

They lived in a three-story house that had been converted into three inexpensive apartments. Toutonghi and her family lived in the basement apartment, and Ann Dunham — Obama’s mother — lived in the apartment directly upstairs.

Dunham attended night classes a few days a week at the University of Washington, and needed someone to take care of her son.

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“I remember his being very large and very curious and very alert. I don’t remember him fussing, but that doesn’t mean anything. Saying he never fussed is like saying he’s not real. But I don’t remember any undue fussing at all,” she said.

Being a struggling young mother herself, in the tumultuous dawning of the 1960s, no less, Toutonghi said she doesn’t remember many specifics about Dunham.

“I was so engrossed in myself at the time,” she said.

But the circumstances of a young mother living, attending school and raising a baby alone stuck in Toutonghi’s mind.

“It was a tough situation, as far as I knew,” she said. “She was 19, she’d promised her parents that she was going to finish college, even through she’d married. I’m presuming her parents were paying for the schooling — nobody had any money at the time.”

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Dunham left school to take care of the baby, and returned to Seattle while Obama Sr. finished college in Hawaii and left for graduate school at Harvard University.

“It was interesting, and I don’t know why she was going to school in Seattle and he was in Hawaii at the time. She had told me at one point that because of her husband’s post in the tribe he was going to have to go back to Kenya and marry a black woman, as well. It was a whole different world, so she was accepting of that and hoping she could get back to him soon,” Toutonghi said.

http://redoubtreporter.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-baby-sitter-awaits-new-era.html

The part in bold above is just bizarre -- very few American women would put up with that.

Why was Ann raising a newborn infant in Seattle by herself while her husband was at school in Hawaii and her parents were living in Hawaii?

Can anyone offer a plausible explanation for that? Very strange.