Leap of Faith
Isabel married her sophomore year of college much to her brother's dismay. When confronted with an irascible Ivo on the phone, she tried to explain that she wasn't like him, that she didn't care what she did with her life so long as she had love.
"Oh, 'love'," he sneered, "What a marvellously outdated concept! You throw away all of your potential to shackle yourself to some brute who will saddle you with children and then leave you at some point in the future when he finds he 'loves' someone else!"
In spite of his admonitions she dropped out of college and married that spring in Paris. She married again upon returning to England to make it legitimate and then arranged a real wedding in Canada for the benefit of her parents who worried about things they did not oversee. Ivo attended all three as best man for the brother-in-law he didn't even know and remarked that she was the most married woman in history.
Isabel wasn't at all angry with him. She knew that his inability to marry had soured him on the subject and that his love for her would render any man she chose beneath his esteem. And in time Ivo did come to accept Kit Winwood, albeit reluctantly. Perhaps it was Kit's naturalness - his love for the outdoors - that won her brother over. Perhaps it was merely the fact that Kit accepted Ivo without reservation. Perhaps it was the fact that neither had a choice; they had to share her.
In 1984, the year Daniel Carlos Reyes became a sophomore, his lover Ivo called his sister Isabel to tell her he had decided to take a leap of faith and get married.
"Sort of. " The concept of gay marriage was a bit avant-garde.
