1967

one year after I graduated from high school. I was lookin’ for love in a frenzy.  I think it was this desire to be loved that began my aha moments of knowing I was a Chinese Black Woman passing for White, and even though there were boys who liked me, their parents, for the most part, didn’t.  Why?  As one ex-husband explained, my parents don’t want mixed-race grandchildren!

Thanks to a Facebook friend, I learned about the movie documenting the Loving v. Virginia   story.  I knew the story, but I had never connected the story to my memoir.  16 states, in 1967, still had anti-miscegnation laws!

Historical facts are missing from my unfinished memoir.  Love Imagined needs to clearly focus beyond a personal narrative into a political one.  The personal is political, but the memoirist should show the reader the connection and her understanding of it.