And I have some observations.
As I went outside, the dark streets were echoing with the usual sounds of people going on their monthly payday bender. All over the neighbourhood, kids are standing around on their balconies with their cider and beer bottles, smoking and talking loudly. Everywhere you look, you can see boys in their late teens walk through the snow in pairs, with pants halfway their asses and those wellknown liqour store bags in their hands, heading to a friend's house so they can spend their Friday evening getting hammered.
Have you noticed how in all Nora Roberts novels, the heroine always has milky white skin? The people around her usually have normal skin tones but she always has this really white, almost see-through skin tone. And everyone who's coloured always speaks in a Southern drawl. In fact, everyone but the heroine speaks in a Southern drawl. Even if she grew up in the deep south just like the rest of the characters in the book, she still speaks the kind of English that they would speak in the Northern states. Why the lily white skin tone? Is it more attractive for a woman to have pasty skin than to have some colour?
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