The Kings Of Cool

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She turns heads.

She’s that beautiful.

Exquisite, Kim walks into the cocktail party uninvited with her head high you might call her bearing regal and no one stops her at the door, no one has the nerve to tell this lovely creature that she can’t come in.

Even the women, although jealous, are intrigued. They want to see what’s going to happen, they want to test their husbands and boyfriends and their own attractiveness against this newcomer.

Kim walks through the crowd, seemingly unconscious of their stares-certainly not self-conscious-walks to the bar, asks for a glass of Chablis, and gets it

She looks twenty-three, at least

No one asks for an ID or an invitation And then, glass at her lips, she coolly turns to survey the crowd as if to determine whether they’re worthy of her interest.

It’s a stunning debut.

Kim is certainly not a debutante, there was no money for even a Sweet Sixteen, but this is her

Coming-Out Party.