A bright smile crosses her face because she does love to talk about Ray.

"In the sixties in Dallas where we were living, people who look like me - like us, because Ray was black too - we didn't have the same rights as white people. Long story involving centuries of slavery and racism but we were starting to fight back, trying to get the right to at least protect our ability to vote. Ray was the leader of one of the groups organizing civil disobedience protests, and he and his people used to meet in the hair salon where I worked after hours. I couldn't talk at the time, but I decided to give him some notes on one of his speeches one night. And a few weeks later, he asked me out to dinner."

And they both fell pretty quickly from there. Which doesn't really tell you much about Ray as a person, but it's at least a start for context.