The not-so-simple story of Barack Obama's youth
Shaped by different worlds, an outsider found ways to fit in.
HONOLULU -- The life stories, when the presidential candidate tells them, have a common theme: the quest to belong.
A boy wants to find his place in a family where he is visibly different: chubby where others are thin, dark where others are light.
A youth living in a distant land searches and finds new friends, a new language and a heartbreaking lesson about his identity in the pages of an American magazine.
A young black man ...
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