Doesn't cheap alcohol kill that off???Somewhere along the family line someone probably ran off with one of those guys from a blue state on the other side of the Alps.
Doesn't cheap alcohol kill that off???Somewhere along the family line someone probably ran off with one of those guys from a blue state on the other side of the Alps.
And don't forget Pope Gregory's painful pun about the blonde-haired Anglian
(as in Anglo-Saxon) boys in the slave-market ca 590,
Non Angli sed Angeli, 'Not Angles but Angels'
My grandparents were born in NW and NE Italy, Rome, and Sicily yet my eldest sister is blonde... Does hair coloring count??? ...she was a Breck Girl!
Cisalpine Gaul lives on.Plenty of blondes in the north of Italy.
I love your story. The emotions are conveyed clearly and strongly, especially the awkwardness. Please write more stories!I'll also add this: I have tough skin, and getting some constructive criticism would be pleasant and refreshing. When I get NO criticism, it can be hard to know if everybody is really paying attention. With that in mind, if anybody thinks that my second draft is inferior to my first (maybe I've added too much and taken away from it by explaining to death?) please say so! Or anything else you would have done differently. Thanks again for reading at all.
Thanks, Dauphin! You might also enjoy my short story “The Guilty,” my running thread of vignettes “Fragments,” or my almost finished “Talbus - The Guard.” Thanks again for reading!The story is good.