So its about Nineteen Fifty Something and my mother’s younger sister Mary, born and raised in southwestern Virginia, marries Jack, a New York Jew. Wow! Pretty scandalous. We were a family of Irish and German Americans, Protestant on one side, lapsed Catholic on the other. A Jew!? From New York. How much more alien can you get (particularly if you are growing up in east Tennessee)?
Mary and Jack produced my oldest cousin Clarke. He married Yuni who is Korean. Wow. How strange! They produced Kim, the brilliant and beautiful young woman in the photo below, who has now married Fernando, an Hispanic Marine… 
