Cindy had a carefully crafted persona that become most obvious to the rest of the world when she began insisting her name was spelled "Sin-Dee," complete with the dash. Her persona-crafting, however, had begun in second grade. Cindy could pinpoint it herself, if she chose to (though she didn't,) as the moment her elementary school crush, Matt, said she looked like his mother.
In Matt's defense, Cindy did look like his mother, especially on that particular day. Cindy had been wearing a cream-colored cardigan with faux pearls sewn down the front. She had also gotten a new haircut--the "Dorothy Hamill"--that didn't suit her, but was the same style worn by Mrs. Anderson (Matt's mother.) Finishing the look, Clumsy Kelley had just dropped the box of loose crayons on the floor at Cindy's feet. The face Cindy made, combined with the fists-on-hips stance she took, struck the boy Matt so profoundly, that he blurted, "You look just like my mom does when she's mad."
Sin-Dee today has a penchant for black, several piercings and several more tattoos; however, if Matt would have walked by the bar where Sin-Dee worked on this particular evening and saw the look she was giving a patron who had just knocked the drink from her hand, he may have found himself again blurting, despite the tramp-stamp, "You look just like my mom does when she's mad."
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