My wife is black, I am white. We have been together for 36 years, going back to a time when interracial couples were not fashionable. We have experienced racism in most of its forms, although nothing quite as offensive, intrusive and painful as the Butler family did when a cross was burned on their lawn. Northern Virginia has been our home since 1982 and we have been parishioners of St. Timothy in Chantilly since 1988, raising three daughters and sending all of them through school there.
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