they'd joined the jehovah's witnesses early in their relationship, but by her early 20s, daughter lizz had left the church. newly independent, she rushed into a marriage. a bad one. >> true that he was involved in heavy drugs? >> yes. >> that was the end of it? >> that was it. i didn't want to live that kind of life. >> reporter: but her parents' marriage just kept going through sickness and health. in fact, in recent years, jaime was looking younger than ever on a vegetarian diet and exercise regimen. >> he realized he was getting older and he just wanted to make sure he was in the best physical shape. >> your mom. your poor -- >> mom. meanwhile had a constellation of health problems, didn't she? >> yes. >> lupus? chemotherapy involved in that? >> at times, yeah. she also had epilepsy. >> did she have the seizures? did you ever see her -- >> yes. yeah, she did. >> reporter: then december 2012 rolled around. their 32nd wedding anniversary. sandra was ill on the actual day. so they went out together ten days later, on december 22nd. >> she was finally feeling well enough to go and have

and just saying our prayers to jehovah that we make it and we all did. >> you just huddled there with your husband. when you got out and looked at this devastation. >> we didn't see this at first. >> reporter: you didn't, it was dark? >> what i did, we came into the living room and i looked out and i saw all the trees gone. all the trees. >> we have been seeing this, the trees ripped apart so many people got power. >> this was all trees. there was this side there was an island. there was the other side of the river. now we are all gone. >> we have been seeing tornadoes in the mid-west and south and other part of the country. did you expect this type of powerful storm in here? >> no, in fact, i tried to warn my parents in south vienna it was coming their way. we knew the news mentioned sherry lynn avenue. we know that's where his sister lives. we were worried for them. not us. >> so where do you go now? >> sherry lynn avenue with david fugate. he's a fire fighter. >> reporter: you rode it out with your pets too. >> we would love it if insurance companies could step up and let us know w

the cults, they were christian scientists, jehovah's witnesses and mormons. they got grouped together. conservative mormons and conservative protestants and catholics were able to realign politically and lower those walls between them and really become more accepting of each other as brothers and sisters in the christian faith. these issues and my mind have been really critical for the shifting definitions of what it means to be christian. things that question. >> let me follow up with one more question. you asked me a question -- i have this next question. every change you have described in your book -- and frankly, i think we could say most changes through human history involving sexuality -- have involved humans having sex with other humans. >> that's true. [laughter] >> and i'm a big fan. [laughter] [laughter] >> but what i'm wondering about with these new technologies is that change the entire terrain and we will start thinking of humans having sex with some form f technology, perhaps not only n their own space but across distances and how that might cha