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Nerissa's skin tone was somewhere in the valley between the two types of dark skin you tend to see in commercials—you know the kinds. I mean, go lighter than her, and you're talking about the sort of "presidential brown" type of actress you can imagine selling you a goddam toothbrush or menstrual pads or incontinence undies or something along those lines; the same type of skin that you might see in a very nicely-done photo shoot used by a college to tout its "modernity" and "diversity" without doing "too much." Or go darker than her, and you're talking about the sort of honest-to-God literally black woman where a monochrome image filter would not change her appearance an iota; the sort of skin you might find in the odd European fashion magazine here and there because it's oh-so "striking" and "against the norm" to depict clothes on skin so all-caps BLACK, in parentheses "(because such a fine Nilotic spezimen ist so exotisch.)" But our dear Nerissa was neither so comparatively light nor so absolutely dark: in the valley, as said, her skin tone was the sort of unremarkable dark-brown that especially on women in the USA tends not to lend itself to a career number of acting roles nor a career number of modeling jobs. But I guess not everybody can live up to their childhood dreams, anyways. "A shitty job is better than no job. C'est la vie," Nerissa would often say during the overtime late shifts, always with a grit of her teeth.

I dunno is that something