So far I am having a lot of fun with this version, as I just finished my generation 1. Therefore meet Claire:
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Claire as a young adult at uni.
Claire started out as a young 20-year-old going to uni to get her Biology-degree. There she fairly quickly met Benny who was her roommate and became her boyfriend. He wasn't a very good boyfriend, however, always asking her out on dates when she had classes or was out with her friends and always saying no when she asked leaving her feeling embarrassed and insecure. After a particularly bad date, Claire had enough and started dating others instead. Plenty of others. The relationship quickly became resentful and ended in bitterness.
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Benny
When it came to school things went better. Claire graduated and moved to Newcrest where she bought the biggest plot of land she could find - only to realise she couldn't afford a house to put on it. For quite some time she and her best friend lived in what can closest be described as a trailer. It didn't go well, they had a falling out and Claire had to ask her to leave. The good news was that by that time, she could afford to build herself a little house and start turning her big plot into a park - a plant at a time.
Dating wise, she had fun, but no one seemed to strike her fancy. She just couldn't find her perfect match. Finally she started thinking about flirting with Jaden, her new best friend and colleague. At least they genuinely liked each other. It was very tentative, and they had just started getting a bit of pink on the relationship scale, when there is a knock on the door and Benny comes to visit. The very same Benny who despises her!
Still, Claire let him in, they started talking and soon they were completely independently flirting with each other. What was red turns to green turns to pink and all of a sudden they are deeply in love. Again. And one-two-three and a whoohoo in the shower later and Claire is pregnant. Benny is delighted with the news, moves in and they start planning their wedding.
They build the park up to make for a wedding scene and have a beautiful wedding day in their park.
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Gen 2 Laurie is very loved when she is born and both parents take turns to stay at home to take care of her while she is a baby. Once she becomes a toddler, however, the ever growing garden needs more and more tending and Claire works from home most days, taking care of both garden, bees and daughter during the days. Benny does the bed-time reading once he gets home from work.
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Laurie as a baby
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Laurie as a child
As Laurie is growing older, Claire decides to go back to uni part time, slowly getting a second degree while mostly working from home. There is in neither Claire or Benny's mind any thought of a second child when suddenly Claire finds herself pregnant again. Oops.
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Going back to uni from home
Cloe is just as loved as her sister, however, but time is scarcer and while Laurie could spend her toddlerhood at home, Cloe goes to daycare from day one. She hates it! As a result she is a fussy child, often angry or sad, but still somehow manages to grow up with perfect skills. As a child she is independent and smart and very neat, whereas Laurie is erratic and sometimes talks to herself (though she does still manage school with perfect grades in spite of her difficulties).
Presently, Laurie is still a teenager, so even though Claire is finished with her aspiration and has reached the top of her career, I will have to wait a few more sim-weeks for Laurie to be able to start the next generation. She is a wild one though, and au so who knows what will happen?
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Laurie right now
The McWilliams family from Laurie's birth to today:
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