Pandora Braithwaite
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Pandora Louise Elizabeth Braithwaite (January, 1967) is the love interest of Adrian Mole in the Adrian Mole series of books by Sue Townsend.
In the books, Pandora is the love of Adrian's life. Pandora is beautiful (Adrian especially loves her 'treacle-coloured' hair) and intelligent, and in the first books, she and Adrian Mole are happy together. In the later books, Pandora resists Adrian's advances in favour of physically and intellectually powerful men, although Adrian continues to remain attached to her.
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Pandora's parents were called Ivan and Tania. She came to Ashby-de-la-Zouch at the age of 13. She sat with Adrian during geography classes, and soon became the most popular girl in their class. She started dating Nigel, but they soon broke-up. A few weeks later, on Wednesday (June 10, 1981), Adrian and Pandora started dating together. They had many short break-ups, till they finally ended their relationship in True Confessions.
She attended college in Oxford, studying Mandarin, Russian and Serbo-Croat. She graduated and married her first husband, who is openly gay. They cemented their love at London's famous Astoria G-A-Y nightclub after he drove for hours to pick her up. Her aversion to germs meant that she was unable to take a train. She had several liaisons and drifts apart from Adrian. Eventually she cohabited with Jack Cavenish, an old professor of linguistics. After many years they split up, with Jack spreading many of her secrets.
Later, she entered politics in the New Labour era under Tony Blair and became a Labour MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. She called herself Pan National and The Shiniest Star on Blair's Sky, and media also started calling her like that.
