:45:02
...I met him for the first time
at a weIfare conference.
:45:06
I feII in Iove with him...
:45:10
...and married him.
:45:12
I didn't care what coIor his skin was.
:45:16
He was the finest...
:45:19
...dearest man I've ever known in my Iife.
:45:36
When the time came...
:45:39
...I discovered I was going to have a chiId.
:45:43
I cried that night.
:45:47
I said to my husband:
:45:51
''There are ways,'' I said.
:45:55
For us, it hadn't mattered
what peopIe thought.
:45:58
We waIked the streets of PhiIadeIphia,
proud, defiant...
:46:03
...and in Iove.
:46:06
But a chiId....
:46:11
My husband was a rock of a man.
:46:15
He said:
:46:18
''It is the wiII of God.''
:46:24
He said, ''We wiII go to France.
:46:27
''In France,
they have a beautifuI bIindness to coIor.
:46:32
''Our chiId wiII be French.''
:46:39
We've Iived here ever since.
:46:42
AII our friends were French.
:46:46
Monique was 13
when the Iast Americans Ieft the Riviera.
:46:52
She had not seen one since
untiI she met you.
:46:58
Maybe I shouId've toId you
that first night, but...