Lévy-Dhurmer, Eve, 1896

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Eve (date of birth, beginning of time; death, a thousand years later)

The original woman and original sinner. Famous for her appetite for apples, especially if they happenned to contain more than nutritious properties.

Ate the apple from the Tree of Knowledge and, along with her husband Adam, was banished from the Garden of Eden before she could also eat from the Tree of Life and subsequently become immortal. Some say God was just worried she would eat the whole place, leafs and all.

Was punished for her gourmandise with a hereditary tendency to gain extra weight around her thighs and abdomen.