PINTEREST is a couch-potato way of putting on the research wellies. Here is a lookalike for my original African character with albinism–LEONA from THE ALBATROSS AND THE LION–alas a character denied me on account of own-voice violation.

Standards of beauty are as diverse as people. When I lived as a teenager in London, I was constantly envious of the wondrous poise and elegant bone structure of African students.