Roberta vs Chrissie

“She will be remembered,” we all said.

Not a lot, to be honest. By me, a little bit. None of the other combatants knew anything at all of Jhoselin on Earth. As to Jane, her problem is that she faces Gillian in round two in a few months time.

The next two are out now. Roberta is number 32 seed and as such would face Gillian in round three if she gets that far. In 1990, she was a first year student at the Sheridan College of Performing Arts, specializing in the violin. Furthermore, she was and remained slim with neat B-cups and just-so curves and a nice face with freckles and a mane of brown hair. She soon became good friends with another first year student named Diane (#2 seed) whom he who was to become Emperor here on New Eden was dating at the time. I wondered why – life being a bitch that needs rectifying – fate couldn’t have rendered me compatible with Roberta instead. Maybe we just want what we can’t have.

Within seconds of her company, one knew that the doors were nailed shut on any concept of sex before marriage, casual sex or open relationships; you have to be the one who marries her. Her problem and quality rolled into one was that she was a born-again Christian. The kindest and gentlest of personalities, she used to do charity work with the homeless. She would lament to us when down-and-out guys kept hitting upon her; well, what did she expect? Part of the reason – a big part – for the decay of my Earthly marriage was that Diane had ‘vaginismus’. Can’t fuck, at least not without targeted sex therapy. Whilst trying to address this in our thirties, she divulged to me that her good friend Roberta (by then with husband 10 years her elder) had also been taught by married life that she had the condition.

‘Jesus’ is all I could think to this. It made me a bit less envious of said husband (talk about out of the frying pan into the fire; he’d been victim in a previous abusive marriage). The lovely Roberta is who concerns us here, however. I am sure a useful role can be found for her on New Eden, if she can win through. I have gifted her with the age of 33 – the age she was when I was first at my age of 35 – and thought it apt to have her lifted out of Easter Day itself, 2003. She had left behind a baby son and I’m sorry about that; but in timeline central of course she has lived out her family life as normal anyway.