At 08:18 PM 5/12/98 EDT, you wrote:

And before somebody says, it's NOT Kimiko. That is, as far as I can tell, a
fanfic invention that has creeped into the pool of common knowledge, rather
like passion spice and Ryoga's exageratted habit of getting-lost.

Her name and the passion spice, yes.  But Ryouga's getting lost isn't
really that exaggerated.  At least, not in the fics I've read...

-Deuce

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