![]() ![]() ![]() Their serendipitous reunion takes place in another bingo hall, in an uplifting second-chance turn to the tale (complicated, still, by family). Hazel goes on to raise three children with James Downing, an Air Force pilot, and becomes a grandmother before she sees Mari again. Thinking they will never see each other again, both marry young. Their brief happiness is ended, as their families separate them after discovering their romance. But nearing graduation, when Mari gets into a fight with her grandmother, and Hazel comforts her, they kiss for the first time. Hazel falls in love with Mari, but hides her feelings for years. ![]() The two black teens go to high school together and quickly become best friends. This gentle sweetheart story begins in 1963, when Hazel Johnson first sees Mari McCray at their church’s bingo hall in Paterson, N.J. ![]()
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