“To start with I must admit that at first I ___1__ ___2__ about a mixed marriage, ____3____ you might even call them. But when I met Mark I found him a charming and ____4____ young guy. Any mother would be proud to have him for a son-in-law. So, color has nothing to do with it. Yes, my friends talk. Some even ____5____ shock at what you are doing. But they live in a different world. So you see, Mark’s color is not the problem. My biggest worry is that you may be ___6__ Mark for the same wrong reasons that I married your father. When we met I saw him as my beloved, intelligent, charming, and___7___. It was all so new, all so exciting, and we both thought, on the surface at least, that ours was an ___8___ marriage with every indication that it would last forever. I realized only later that I didn’t know my beloved, your father, very well when we married.”