You were always so calm and patient I am still in awe of how you carry yourself with so much presence. I was so scared and at one point in time during the service when I was bending on one knee, I silently asked myself what in the world was I doing getting married at the age of twenty one. The audience was a mixture of old and young folks of different ethnicities. The minister was Lutheran and way too progressive for this area. ![]() ![]() I am the Jew from New Jersey and you are the Catholic Black woman from Kansas. The ceremony had Catholic and Jewish aspects reflecting the religions we were brought up with. An African American woman marrying a white man wasn’t common in those days certainly not in 1972. We were very much an anomaly an interracial marriage smack in the nation’s heartland. It was nearly one hundred degrees and the sun was beating down on us. The festivities took place at Sunset Park in Salina, Kansas. ![]() Your mother said, “Take that clown hat off” and I immediately followed her orders even though it was my wedding. You were dressed in white complete with a bonnet and I was wearing a rented tux and a top hat like the dancers wore at the end of Blazing Saddles. ![]() We were married in the middle of Kansas in the middle of day and in the middle of turmoil in America.
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