However, she is brought back to life as Torchy in Heartbeats in 1950. Ormes' narrative is about an older Torchy who falls in love, enrolls in school to become a nurse's assistant, and travels to exotic settings. Black people in love was not a concept that many white people could understand due to colonization when black families were forced apart during slavery and sold like animals (White, 1999; Collins, 2005). How could black love be possible? Ormes dispelled that myth by attracting love interests for Torchy Brown. Ormes humanizes Torchy as a normal woman in love, sensual but with good taste, maintaining her own correct and virtuous behavior and not the stereotypical images portrayed by black women. Saidiya Hartman (1997) explains how female slaves had no right to say they refused sexual advances towards them from their owners because they were considered lewd. Torchy does not adhere to this label, even though she is not a slave, she is a black woman and those stereotypes followed her wherever she visited. She defends herself from sexual assault based on the controlling behavior of men who believe they have a right to her body. In contrast to the historical comic of the chained and hanging naked body, Ormes draws Torchy's half-naked body displaying her beauty while sunbathing in a bikini or bathing in jungle waters. Torchy is a young woman in love and loves her body and isn't afraid to show it off