A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honey-moons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day.
Girls can do that.
Steer a man away from death or drive him right to it. Pull you out of sleep and you wake up on the ground under a tree you'll never locate again because you're lost. Of if you do find it, it won't be the same. Not even trying, he had become the kind of man who could walk into a house and make the women cry. Because with him, in his presence, they could.