Karen McCormick

Karen was anything but pure. As a pre-teen, she'd go out in the streets and watch complete strangers, some of which took her home and in this way, Karen learned everything she needed to know about sex before she went to High School. So she was well prepared for the raging hormones.

She was known as the school slut, just like Kenny had once been known as the man whore. But unlike Kenny, Karen did not turn her life around because she had good friends in her life that threatened her under gunpoint (Kyle to Kenny: "If you don't study now, Kenny, I swear I'm going over to your house and taking all of your porn."). No, Karen didn't have anyone but her pleasures and desires. That's why it was no surprise that she got pregnant when she was just fourteen.

It was a surprise though when she decided to get an abortion.

She had three more before she even finished high school. By then, she'd become an alcoholic, had become addicted to heroin and was smoking pot at a regular basis. Her world was crashing and she couldn't possibly get lower.

Except she did.

She was in her last year of high school when she suddenly disappeared and didn't come back. She'd left her family a note, saying she'd found someone she loved and was running away with him.

No one heard from her again until the day she just appeared at Kenny's doorstep, pale, beaten, tired and round, years later.

She never did tell her brother what she'd been doing with her life these last couple of years. Butters took care to make her comfortable and they kept her at their home. Kenny and Butters watched as she slowly got better. Her wounds healed, her color came back, she gained some healthy weight, but she never smiled or laughed. She just stared. And then the contractions came and Kenny panicked but Butters kept the peace.

Karen died giving birth to her last and only living child. Kenny was there and he held the tiny baby in his arms. A little boy who looked a lot like the McCormick bloodline. He was baptized Keane and was adopted by Kenny and Butters. They raised him to be their son and even though they always feared something would be wrong with him because of Karen's lifestyle, Keane was healthy and prospered.

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