This probably won't mean much to people of my generation, but my hipper readers will doubtless know that Samara is a character in the "Mass Effect" science-fiction video game. The model for Samara's face was a young California woman named Rana McAnear, and last week Rana happened to be visiting her aunt, a dear friend of mine who lives in East Marlborough. We met at the Longwood Starbucks.
Samara is bright blue and odd-looking (she's an alien, after all) but in person Rana is absolutely stunning, with a chiseled face and very long, wavy red hair. She had just worked at the famed New York Comic Convention and told us some funny stories about the not-so-glamorous side of being a "cosplay" participant: wearing the skin-tight Neoprene costume for 12 hours at a stretch, and contracting the legendary "Nerd Flu" that seems to fell so many convention-goers. She said that the character Samara has a very somber personality (she has a lot on her mind, such as a serial-killer daughter), so her fans love it when they catch her in a candid smiling moment.
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