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Beyond Borders.(interracial marriage)

Vogue

| October 01, 2008 | Thompson, Christina | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Worlds apart, from culture to social strata, Christina Thompson and her husband built a marriage aware of but not gripped by class difference.

In the early years of our marriage, people always used to ask us how we'd met. It was not in itself an unusual question, but there was always an edge of genuine perplexity whenever it was put to us. You could tell that people really did wonder how two paths as divergent as ours could have crossed. It's not just a matter of how we look; it's everything about us. I am a small, fair-haired New Englander; my husband, Seven, is a six-foot-two, 200-pound Polynesian. I have a Ph.D.; he went to trade school. I edit Harvard Review; ...

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