the diary of Obama's lover from Australia
Voice like a wind chime: the diary of Obama's lover from Australia
Damien Murphy
May 4, 2012
AUSTRALIA finally got a piece of a US President. Barack Obama was just out of law school when he began a two-year affair with Genevieve Cook, daughter of an Australian diplomat.
He was 22. She was 25. In 1983 she was teaching primary school children when she met him at a Christmas party in East Village. She brought a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream. And kept a diary!
Nearly 30 years later, some of it can be perused in an extract from a book, Barack Obama:
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The Story by David Maraniss, published in Vanity Fair magazine.
Among the unpresidentially juicier entries:
First date - ''I'm pretty sure we had dinner maybe the Wednesday. I think maybe he cooked me dinner. Then we went and talked in his bedroom. And then I spent the night. It all felt very inevitable.''
http://www.smh.com.au/national/voice-like-a-wind-chime-the-diary-of-obamas-lover-from-australia-20120503-1y1vn.html
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