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Was Barack Obama raised outside the U.S?

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Born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, Barack Obama passed most of his childhood and adolescent years in Honolulu, Hawaii. At age six, he moved to Jakarta where he lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather for four years.

 


 

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