Your impression is correct. Rod Stewart said it best, “So remember, every picture tells a story don’t it.”
Obama lived with his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro, in Hawaii for three years from 1972 to 1975 while his mother was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Hawaii.[32]
The joint tax return tells us that Stanley Ann and Lolo lived together during that period and had one child, Maya.