C. Billingsley Adams, novelist and playwright, considers herself to be a ‘southern writer’. Having grown up in Georgia, she later spent many of her adult years living in such diverse settings as Germany, the Mojave Desert, and the Washington D.C. area and her observed impressions of the persons and customs of each have greatly influenced her thinking that people are people, no matter what their geographical and situational differences. It is the depth of these differences that creates the culture. Buttermilk, for instance, may be equally delectable to a southern farmer as wine is to a European aristocrat. In essence, we may all live, love, lust, and linger in differing degrees, but we all do live, love, lust, and linger just the same.