So Jim decided to go to law school and this meant transferring to the Indiana University campus in Indianapolis to get ready for it. The early years of their marriage together were difficult for Marceline, she occasionally thought about divorcing him. For all her ambition, Marceline wanted a traditional family, but there were two years in and Jim had shown zero interest in that. His interest in politics was becoming an obsession, and as he spent more time with his socialist friends in reading about events like Cicero, Marceline felt like Jim was becoming radicalized, obsessed. In Indianapolis, he began pushing right past the socialist and seeking out explicit communists. He began attending meetings and began preaching communism at home to Marceline and her nephew who had come to stay with the couple for a while. Most alarming of all the Marceline, Jim seemed not merely to have lost his religious faith, but to have actually embraced the communist outright hostility to Christianity. His espousal of communism at the height of the Korean War in the McCarthy area was worrying enough, but his newfound aggressive atheism was devastating for Marceline. He couldn't even tolerate her faith as a difference of opinion. He railed against her beliefs at home, telling her that there was no God and that the Bible was worse than a fraud. It was oppressive, racist propaganda. The churches were organs of racism and class oppression. He became infuriated whenever she prayed, even one time threatening to throw himself out of a window if she wouldn't stop. Both to put his death on her conscience and to prove to her that prayer was useless. He could get very petulant. Marceline had only seen flashes of this side of Jim while they were dating. There was a time when Don Foreman, one of Jim's childhood friends, came to work at the Richmond Hospital where Jim and Marceline met. They were very good friends by some accounts, best friends from elementary school. Jim and Don Foreman had drifted apart as they got into high school as Don spent time on sports and back roads, beer runs, and Jim became kind of an increasingly isolated eccentric bookworm. In Richmond, at the hospital, Jim was away from everybody who knew him from Lynn in his early years, his hometown. He was free to reinvent himself and start over.