Thorbs offers his reactions to his daughter's marriage to a white man. Thorbs explains that he and his wife were initially opposed to the union because they believed their daughter should marry within the African American race. She married him despite their objections and they welcomed him into their family despite their earlier opposition. Thorbs's daughter had met her husband while away at school and they eventually settled in Iowa. Thorbs does not offer a specific date for when the marriage occurred, but based on other indications in the interview it likely happened sometime during the 1960s or 1970s.