By MATT SCHWARTZ, DAN MURPHY and ANTHONY SMYRSKI
Photography by DAN MURPHY and CHRIS CRISMAN
Megawords: How did you decide to get married and have children?
Jacques: We never actually had a ceremony. But how decided to stick together has been working itself out. While we were in the early stages of the relationship, we went through things like everybody, breakups and makeups. We stared having children kind of early. I was 21 and you were 20, right?
Zendra: Right, when Yismael was born. The turning point, when we knew we could make it work, was when we went to St. Croix.
Jacques: We were three children deep but we were still kind of back and forth. When you have family in the area it’s easy to get away to other peoples’ houses when you’re having difficulties. But after 9-11, we decided we needed some balance. We needed to get away.
