Yvonne	Kari
Prior Relationships	Yvonne was raped at age 14. She carried her resultant first son to term and dropped out of school in the sixth grade to raise him. A second son was born with her wife-beating first husband. Two years later, a third was born to her second husband. After he was suspected cheating, she left him. A few years later she married a third time, unable to bear any more children.	Kari, too, was a victim of sexual assault as a teenager, by a family friend in charge of watching her and his own daughter, several times over a nine-month period before finally reporting it to the police. She and her mom moved to Minnesota afterward, where she finished high school, then earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. She was married only once, lasting two years. She told me I was the twelfth different sexual partner she'd had over the duration of her marriage.
Career	Yvonne was a homemaker for years. After her children were old enough to watch for themselves after coming home from school, she worked as a prison guard, then as a member of the RCMP Victim Services Unit, consoling and counseling those who'd had family members raped, murdered, or were victims of violent crimes. Later she opened her own business, and is meeting with a great deal of success.	Kari worked for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections as a prison guard after graduating college. Afterward, she drifted from job-to-job in retail and customer service.
Religion	Yvonne was raised Catholic as a child. She is now a high priestess in her wiccan coven. She was open in her magick with me, casting even in my presence. Her spells were mainly for protection and the healing of others.	Kari was raised a Lutheran, but also occasionally practices as a wiccan solitaire. Kari said she would not cast in front of me under any circumstance, and her spells were black in nature, usually dealing with revenge of some slight.
Knowing you're "the one"	My first gift to Yvonne was sent through the mail before we met face-to-face, a pewter dragon. Months before she had scried a crystal ball and saw the vision of a dragon. My gift was the exact image she had seen in the crystal ball, and her eyes were open to the thought that I was "the one."	After Kari and I went on our first canoe trip (which included skinny-dipping and topless tanning), she said she'd like me to tease her to the point of giving in. The next two times we were together, I teased and felt her body, but she just laid there and took it. When all of a sudden I quit, she asked why I'd stopped in the middle of touching her. I said I had to deal for years with a woman who didn't touch back and I wasn't going to any more. She empathisized with the emotional pain from her own relationships and knew I was "the one."

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