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Initially, we, we settled in Arlington, Virginia, 

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still, still a place of racial segregation, and in some corners, white supremacy.

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So, that was kind of a difficult place to be. We only stayed there for six months. 

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It was also a moment before the Supreme Court had decided Loving v. Virginia, and the Virginia law banned all interracial marriages. And so,

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I don't, I don't really know, and I never asked—I should have asked—I don't know how that affected how my, my parents felt as a couple going around, but 

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I certainly experienced, you know, the whispers and so forth in school, and among parents, and so forth, for being the progeny of an interracial couple. And 

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you know, especially nasty kids would throw around, like, "Are you illegitimate then?" 

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and that kind of thing since theoretically my parents' marriage was not valid in the state in which we at that moment resided.

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So, we fled to Maryland, and that was a better kind of situation. 

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I, you know, in seventh and eighth grade—or eighth and ninth grade—which was the only two years we spent in Maryland, 

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I didn't spend that much time in my mother's office during the school year, except on certain kinds of particularly exciting votes, 

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or contested votes. Sometimes I would drive in with my father from Silver Spring, where I was in middle school. 

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But by tenth grade, we moved back into the city, and were only three minutes from the Rayburn Building where my mother's office was at, at that point. 

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So, I came up all the time, and after school, and on, on weekends, and so forth, and really sort of soaked in the experiences of anti–war legislative activity, and 

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civil rights activity, and, eventually, the burgeoning attempt to promote equality for women through legislation, kind of activity.