A chance encounter at the playground, a moment of young love, and the opportunity to kiss each other quickly turned into a moment that stuck in Phillip's mind forever. Caught Twelve-year-old Marie was caught kissing a boy. Grabbing her daughter by her long black hair, chastising her all the way home, Marie's mother made sure she went back to "where she belonged." And she belonged nowhere near Phillip.
Four years later, Phillip, then seventeen, and Marie met again. This time, the consequences of their time spent in a parked car caught the ire of her father. A profanity-laced tirade prompted Marie to rush home and Phillip to question the abuser.
"Excuse me, sir. Did you say that Marie won't be allowed out for one year?"
Phillip and Marie, A Couple of Nobodies from Nowhere.