Born to Fly by Sara Evans

Author:Sara Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books
Published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

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I wore faded bell-bottom jeans, a hippie-type shirt that I got at Urban Outfitters, and flip-flops. We met at Fieldstone Park in Franklin. When Jay pulled up, he got out of his truck looking like a 6'3", 220-pound model. He wore a baseball cap, t-shirt, True Religion jeans with holes in the knees, and motorcycle boots. His pictures did not do him justice. He was stunning, with royal blue eyes. I was a goner.

I said, “Did you bring your glove?”

“Sure did.” He grabbed his mitt from his truck.

We looked at the other’s mitts and realized we had the same Cooper glove. We’d even written our names in the identical spots on the palm of the glove. His said Barker and mine said Evans. I remembered how Joe Beam had said that Jay was the male version of me, and I was the female version of Jay.

At first, Jay would only lob balls to me. I guess he thought I was a girlie girl. Finally, I said, “What are you doing? Throw the ball!”

“Are you sure?” he asked.

“Yes, I’m sure.”

So Jay threw a really hard ball that hit the dirt right in front of me, and I scooped it up and fired it back at him. He took his glove off and feigned pain. And I could tell that he was a goner, too.

It was unseasonably hot for October, so we threw for a little while longer and decided to get dinner. We went to a little restaurant called Puckett’s in Franklin, sat outside, and ordered cheeseburgers and fries. I couldn’t stop looking at his beautiful face. There was a speaker right over our heads with loud, annoying music, and I had a hard time hearing him with the music and with his deep southern drawl. I kept leaning in closer to hear him, and later, Jay told me that he couldn’t tell if I was trying to kiss him or not, but that he thought it would be too forward to kiss me. And he didn’t kiss me at all that first night, because he’s a gentleman.

Neither of us could deny that Joe Beam was right. We were made for each other. We had a very fast courtship. I think when you are dating in your thirties, you just know who you are and who you want to be with. It’s much easier than it is when you’re in your twenties. By January, we were secretly planning our wedding.

In March there’s a week called CRS (Country Radio Seminar) when all the artists come together and spend days doing interviews and liners for radio. Every year, RCA hosts all the radio programmers and VIPs on a showboat called the General Jackson, where they are entertained by RCA’s artists and newly signed acts. We call it “the boat show,” and it’s really exhausting. The boat takes off from downtown Nashville and goes all the way out to Opryland and then back. Joe Galante was brilliant in starting this, because once

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