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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA love story: She thought he was black. He thought she was white. And they were both wrong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/booming/starting-out-us-against-the-world-but-still-together.htmlA COUPLE WHO SEE RACE CLEARLY
Christopher and Laura Castoro celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary on June 8. In 2000, he retired as the director of transportation for a chemical and technology company. She is an author (also writing under her maiden name, Laura Parker) who writes, among other things, romance novels, including Love on the Line, Rose of the Mists, A Rose in Splendor and The Secret Rose. The couple lives in Fort Worth. They have three adult children and nine grandchildren. A condensed and edited version of our conversation follows.
You met in college?
Christopher: Yes, I went to Howard University to study chemistry. As a high-schooler in Brooklyn Id taken a test that secured me a scholarship a full ride to Howard. I was studying German during my junior year and this girl with very fair skin and curly blond hair shyly asked me to tutor her.
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A love story: She thought he was black. He thought she was white. And they were both wrong. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Aug 2013
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pnwmom
(109,021 posts)2. Thanks, woolldog! Beautiful then and now. n/t
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)3. a very sweet article/ story
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)4. Great story!
Thanks for sharing
ecstatic
(32,781 posts)5. This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode:
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)6. I miss that show. Thanks! n/t
CurtEastPoint
(18,675 posts)7. I just watched that and howled! I miss it, too.
The waitress... "Are you black?" And then Elaine's eyes!
Cha
(297,935 posts)8. Beautiful love story.. one for the
ages. You just never know who's going to make it. I'm thinking my daughter and her husband will. Which reminds me!.. I need to get a card off for their 22nd Anniversary on August 31st.
thank you, pnwmom!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)9. kick