Brenda Chenowith
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Name: Brenda Chenowith (Journal ) |
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Background
Brenda was born on July 19, 1969 in Los Angeles. As a child prodigy, she was under the scrutiny of Dr. Gareth Feinberg and various psychologists who documented her behavior in a book called Charlotte Light and Dark. Being a genius, however, she would study the symptoms of diseases and feign them, to make Charlotte Light and Dark completely inaccurate. Her parents were wealthy but dysfunctional psychiatrists while her brother Billy was a successful photographer, struggling with bipolar disorder. Brenda spent much of her life taking care of Billy and has struggled to build her own life outside of his illness. Billy had a strong fixation on Brenda's life, and their relationship at times bordered on incest.
Brenda grew into a self-destructive adult, with issues including sexual addiction, marijuana and alcohol dependence/borderline addiction, an overbearing (and insane) mother, a father who dies, and a relationship that is as much fun to watch as it would probably be terrible to live.
(In brief: Boy meets girl in airport. Girl has sex in supply closet with boy. Girl and boy fall in love. Girl and boy get engaged. Boy gets other girl pregnant; girl sleeps with everyone else in L.A. Girl and boy break up. Boy has a kid with and marries someone else. Girl meets someone else. Boy's someone else dies. Girl cheats on her someone else with boy. Boy and girl get married. Girl gets pregnant. Boy cheats on girl WITH HIS FREAKING FERRETY STEPSISTER, has an aneurysm, then dumps girl. Boy dies. Girl has boy's baby. Teh end.)
Where Canon and Brenda go separate ways
Brenda was in Fandom about a year after the end of the show. She had gotten her MSW and was working on a Ph.D., while trying to research adolescent issues on the island. She left her daughters Maya and Willa, with their grandmother, Ruth, ostensibly to keep from uprooting them but really because she was having a hard time dealing.
She left over Christmas 2005 because she felt she needed to be there for her daughters.
