A Fairy-Tale Ending in Its Own Time

While growing up, Julia Mathis imagined having a fancy wedding with a huge crowd, a string of bridesmaids and a towering cake. Her mother had married her father at the age of 21 and that partnership held solid for 40 years.

Marriage for Ms. Mathis promised stability, and she thought that she would also fall into married life in her early 20s.

Raised in a Christian home, the child of interracial parents — her mother is white and her father African-American — Ms. Mathis, now 40, never quite found her footing in her conservative hometown, University Place, Wash. She excelled in school and sports, but when it came to boys, she was a late bloomer.

She met her first beau at the University of Southern California from which she earned a master’s degree in public administration in 2005, after graduating from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in social welfare.

Source: The New York Times

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