March 2012 1
Franchesca ‘Cheka’ Alvarado, 22, a mom always hitting the high note—with undying love for The Rock
Franchesca “Cheka” Alvarado had an invincible voice like Whitney Houston and the blistering humor of Roseanne Barr. “Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?” she would bellow upon entering a room, an homage to her very public obsession with wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson. As a teenager, she plastered a photo of The Rock on her […]
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