Cathy, not entirely sure about your meaning. Since I work in diversity, and I regularly write about race, and this woman’s background put her in a world of Brown/Black people, that is most certainly a big part of my point. Since I also write a lot about aging, in this particular story the two went hand in hand naturally. What is your question? Because a goodly part of her difficulty in making the transition has a lot to do with her skin color, and what her skin color effectively negotiated for her in that part of world.