I didn't know the rooming house had gone away, for one thing. For another, this sounds less like the boarding house my father lived in than the group houses my

I didn't know the rooming house had gone away, for one thing. For another, this sounds less like the boarding house my father lived in than the group houses my friends I lived in. Obama wasn't born in my father's boarding house days, and I don't think he was out of college when I lived in group houses.