Prologue

I guess introductions are in order. My real name is Emily, though I feel I am rarely called by this moniker. When one is blessed with porcelain skin, chocolate hair and azure eyes, one is called: Casper, Frosty, Wednesday, Ice Queen, Ghost, etc. Additionally, my last name afforded the nickname Max by several guy friends. More recently there is Panda - black hair/white skin (original!). Mais, I digress...Snow White happened upon me primarily in college. I am not sure exactly of the particulars. I do know that during a trip to Disneyland for Spring Break my Sophomore year I stalked this aforementioned character and upon developing the photo, we looked like sisters.

My parents also bear mentioning for they have bestowed upon me figurines, a cardboard cut-out (for my 21st birthday), a Christmas ornament, and this year for Christmas the special edition DVD set complete with 7 stuffed dwarfs.

I guess it didn't help that my senior thesis was entitled "A Rhetorical Analysis of the Songs in Walt Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.'" I won't bore you with too many details, but my main finding was that Snow White is a character with a split dichotomy of helplessness and can-do attitude. For months my nose was burried in analyses of this classic fairytale, and, alas, now I can spout knowledge about this tale and the broader genre whenever I feel provoked.

But enough about my assumed alias. The other half of my title is rather easy to venture a guess at: the Big Apple=New York. I also thought that it served as a nice reference to my character as well.

Forthcoming chapters will be filled with god only knows what. I make no promises.

Yours,
SW