Out With IT!!!!
I am a firm believer of just coming out with news that you think is not going to be well received. JUST COME OUT WITH IT! The stress lies in concealing whatever 'it' is. If you don't put it out there, then it festers and you have no idea where you stand with that person or set of people. So one of the sets of letters that I wrote were to my family, my mother and my father. This all happened when I was roughly 26 years old, engaged the second time in my life to Charles. Charles was black. That is not what makes the story so compelling. It was the early 90s, and interracial dating was much more widely accepted than in the 60s and 70s. But as we all know, there are still challenges in society, especially in the deep south. What was compelling about the story was the struggle I was going through emotionally with my mom, dad and family about the fact that he was black. When I dated and was engaged to Darius, I believe my mom just thought that was a phase I was goin...