Mom and Daddy Newman had opposing views as to how
their son should be raised. Barely out of the womb,
the kid was also the target of hate balls hurled at
him by other Newman siblings who were pissed that
their shares of the Newman fortune had been reduced.
Constantly unable to get along, Hopeless packed up
the kid, went back to the farm to reconsider
Cliff's marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Victor wasted
no time filing for divorce and returning to Nikki
for a shoulder to cry on.
In 1996 Victor was shot. Following his recovery
Victor went to visit Hopeless in Kansas primarily
for the purpose of renewing himself spiritually. He
did not take along a change of clothing and after
repairing Hope's fence the black tank top he was
wearing was soaked in sweat. Regardless, Victor sat
down at the dinner table without taking a shower to
eat some of Hope's famous pot pie.
The next morning Victor was wearing the same tank
top and Hopeless, with her heightened sense of
smell, didn't get a whiff of his body odor. They
were telling each other again how they came from
different worlds when Cliff showed up. Cliff was immediately
upset to see Hopeless drooling all over Victor, but
couldn't do anything about it because in this
relationship it was Hopeless who wore the pants.
Victor went back home to propose to Nikki because,
apparently, Hopeless had made him realize that his
brush with death was a sign from God. Before Victor
could pop the question a call came in that Cliff had
been hit by a drunk driver and might die. That
Victor rushed back to Kansas to be with Hopeless so
pissed Nikki off she married Dr. Josh Landers in Las
Vegas.
The official archives don't cover how it came to be,
but Cliff died and in 1997. Hopeless returned to
Genoa City to fall for the mysterious Kurt Costner
who had saved Ashley's meaningless life after having
been mugged again. This set up a battle over Kurt
between Hopeless and Ashley.
Somewhere in between Victor's oldest son, Nick, came
home from a Swiss boarding school which was so
important Victor cut his honeymoon with Hopeless
short only to spend less than an hour with "my boy".
By this time too the GCN had dubbed Hopeless "Plain
Jane" because things had become so convoluted.
Petting Hope's head like some lost puppy he'd found,
Victor asked Hopeless how she'd liked the return
trip.
"It was like being in another world," Hopeless
actually said.
Surprised to learn of the marriage, Jack dropped by
the Newman's 35th floor apartment to find Hopeless
bumping into the furniture despite the fact that
before bringing Hopeless home, Victor had put
everything he could in Braille including a Bible
that almost never left Hope's side. Asked by Jack
how she enjoyed her honeymoon, Hopeless said, "It
was a whole new experience and that she was "the
luckiest woman alive."
Then there was the first time Hopeless brewed
coffee. Taking a sip, Victor remarked how good it
was and wondered how she had learned to make such
great tasting java.
"I remember my mother teaching me to make coffee
when I was young," Hopeless said as she again told
Victor how "thrilling" life was with him in it.
"You're like a magnet for excitement. It clings to
you and surrounds you like an aura. I'm in awe of
you most of the time," Hopeless blathered until she
noticed something was bothering her man.
"Tell me about your pain," Hopeless cooed.
Victor's pain had nothing to do with the
questionable fact that while Hopeless claimed to
have been raised an orphan, she somehow had a mother
who taught her how to brew coffee.
The love/hate story
ended when Hopeless went to work for Kurt at a local medical clinic as his
receptionist. When the clinic failed a few weeks later, Hopeless and Kurt
returned together to Kansas. Kurt was never heard from again.
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