Meets JOI at Toronto; the May-December marriage; the immigration saga; Orin's birth "a legal maneuver"; dual citizenship

pivotal · ~late 1980s-90s B.S. (JOI in his late thirties)

• When: UNDATED (JOI "in his late thirties" per Orin; before Orin's birth, which precedes the pre-Subsidized era)
• What: JOI — "hard-drinking" top optics man — met Avril, "one of the few bona fide bombshell-type females in North American academia," at a U. Toronto conference on Reflective vs. Reflexive Systems, and married her (a "May-December" marriage). The romance was "rendered even more romantic" by the bureaucratic tribulations of obtaining an Exit-Visa, an Entrance-Visa, and a Green Card for a surveilled Professor Mondragon; "the birth of the Incandenzas' first child, Orin, had been at least partly a legal maneuver." Avril retains dual citizenship (Hal names her, obliquely, as "a blood-relative who's got dual citizenship").