She came into the world in 1984, the kind of year when the air tasted like danger and cheap aftershave. Tight jeans, stolen cigarettes, and bad decisions riding her hips from the jump. People say her mother pushed too hard in a backroom somewhere between a jukebox and a fistfight. Others claim she arrived between heartbeats, already awake to the fact that men would want her before she could spell her own name. She learned early how to tilt her chin and make them forget what they came for. Skin like trouble. Eyes like a dare. Born in the heat, and the heat never left her.
She came into the world in 1984, the kind of year when the air tasted like danger and cheap aftershave. Tight jeans, stolen cigarettes, and bad decisions riding her hips from the jump. People say her mother pushed too hard in a backroom somewhere between a jukebox and a fistfight. Others claim she arrived between heartbeats, already awake to the fact that men would want her before she could spell her own name. She learned early how to tilt her chin and make them forget what they came for. Skin like trouble. Eyes like a dare. Born in the heat, and the heat never left her.
