Her name is Lavinia, and she likes to eat people.  Her pediatrician told her that she had a rare condition - no one would call it a disease - that let her swallow human beings and keep them alive as long as she herself lived.  She was told not to make use of it until 18, but on her birthday, at midnight, her boyfriend at the time - Carlos, a few weeks older - stripped off his clothes, and she downed him.  He laughed as he melted away.  Her parents and his parents had all just assumed that was what she would make of him - even today, she hears him in her head.  She's thirty now, single, and hasn't downed another - but she's looking.<br/><br/>(Sorry, am I toeing the line?)