-- young girls university students of the Veneto-Friuli province, chatting of nonsensical affairs about friends and relatives with the moral inflections and commonplaces of their mothers, dressed casually and modestly, small simple earrings, and bearing the most intense and erotically charged look in their eyes;

-- African women and men, walking in couples, arm under arm, hand in hand, smiling, joking, talking. This may seem normal, but it is actually a very rare sight in Italy;

-- a couple of girls, one African-Italian girl and a blond Italian. I walk toward them along the sidewalk. The blond girl is gently opening the blouse of the black girl, showing up her white shirt. The black girl, lost in her thoughts, is looking away. As I come closer to them, the black girl raises her eyes and looks at me, with a serious expression. The blond girl, now putting her hands down, says: "there, now you look very nice";

-- The girl behind the counter in the bar near the station, no more than 20 years old, wears a fetish-like black leather top, extremely alluring and showing. The bar is just a simple Italian bar, but she doesn't look out of place. It doesn't take much to understand that she is courting the polish waiter, approximately her age, who keeps forgetting what I ordered. They would make a beautiful couple, actually.