Sex-segregated rooming policies can be evaded with an absurd invented family story

Evidence

While checking in, we discovered the joint was under new management, a right wing conservative Christian group. They had a new policy that did not allow single people of the opposite sex to share a room. I told them we were married. Those Christians looked oddly at us. I signed the book while explaining that the fair skinned, ginger haired Mr. Olson was my second husband, and Viva, our black teenage child, had been adopted. They let us all check into one room, but they still maintained suspicion of the odd Olson family. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 255

Categorization

• BMF: The invented interracial/biracial family cover story to satisfy a rule-bound institution echoes the ruses and identity-passing in Home Boy or the constructed-family conceits — but no close plot-device match; better as a general XREF.
• CANDY: Fun anecdote — the fake ‘second husband with adopted black teenage child’ family pass at a conservative Christian spa.