According to his court testimony, Evans told her that he didn't need to be treated because, among other things, he doesn't have a vagina. When Rossiter discussed her infections with Evans and suggested that he should get checked too, he seemed unconcerned. Rossiter began to wonder if her new beau was the source of her infections -and if his recent sexual past was really what she believed it to be. Rossiter had been seeing her doctor about repeated vaginal infections, which she says she'd never had before, and which were treated with rounds of antibiotics. "I went on with my life," she says.Įxcept for one annoying thing. And since, she says, she had no symptoms such as genital warts, she concluded it wasn't anything to worry about. She learned that in most cases, the body fights off the virus naturally.
Evans told her it was "no big deal." But even after their talk, "I was confused about what meant," she says. After reading the letter, she panicked and started crying: She'd tested positive for HPV. Due to a logistical mix-up, her HPV results had taken nearly three months to arrive. Then one day, while on the phone with Evans, Rossiter opened a letter that would change her life. For that first New Year's Eve date, the budding couple stayed in: "We got cuddly on the couch," Rossiter says. "I had no reason not to trust him," she says. Rossiter recalls Evans following suit, saying he'd been in a sexual "dry spell" for six months and had also never had any STDs. With the exception of one irregular Pap smear in 2002, she had a clean bill of health and had never tested positive for STDs.
She told him she'd recently broken up with a long-time boyfriend, her fifth sexual partner, and hadn't slept with anyone in a few months. What she told Evans was almost oversharing, but, she says, she felt it was the right thing to do. "He seemed low-key, smart, interested in world affairs-just my type." They made a date for New Year's Eve, a couple of weeks away.īecause she felt things were about to get serious, Rossiter used one of those long phone calls to have "the talk" about her sexual history. "He said he was a leader in his church, that he liked to fish, hunt, ride his motorcycle and go out on his boat," she says. Then Rossiter and Evans started having marathon phone conversations, cracking each other up and revealing more and more about themselves. She had an evening appointment, and afterward, she says, they sat chatting on the waiting room couch into the night. When Rossiter returned for a follow-up, the two hit it off.
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