This undated photo released by Obama for America shows Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama's father, also named Barack Obama, and mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (her father always wanted a son). Obama's father left the family to study at Harvard when Barack was just two. This visit, when Obama was 10, was the last time he saw his father. By then Ann had remarried. AP Photo logo AP Photo 68 months ago

This undated photo released by Obama for America shows Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama's father, also named Barack Obama, and mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (her father always wanted a son). Obama's father left the family to study at Harvard when Barack was just two. This visit, when Obama was 10, was the last time he saw his father. By then Ann had remarried.

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