Lara’s out and proud attitude, public displays of affection and the intensity of new love became too much for the insecure athlete. She couldn’t chance the negative publicity that a lesbian relationship might bring about so she broke it off abruptly. A year or so later they’d found their way back. Though Dana had dated other women in between, and was at one time engaged to be married to another woman Lara was her first true love.

Soon after the breakup with Lara Dana came out in a Subaru magazine ad only to find that her phobias were unfounded. Her fans embraced her sexuality and her career blossomed. Dana rebounded in love with an obnoxious publicist named Tonya whom she met at the Dinah Shore weekend where she was being honored.

Most everyone, especially Dana’s best friend Alice recognized Tonya to be an opportunistic gold digger but they didn’t interfere, at least not until Dana and Tonya got engaged to be married. It was then that Alice finally spoke up; not only to let Dana know Tonya was just after her money and fame but at the same time Alice professed to her best friend that she was in love with her. Dana reciprocated Alice’s feeling and they commenced to having an affair while Dana and Tonya were still together.

Alice went along for a while as the ‘other woman’ but then insisted that Dana break up with Tonya if she wanted to be with her. Dana did break off the engagement only to find out that Tonya too had been having an affair with another woman. It was by mutual agreement that they admitted they were just not right for each other.

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Dana and Alice were good as a couple at the beginning but it didn’t work out long term. They broke up a few months later but unfortunately they lost the friendship as a consequence. Dana broke it off because she found herself suffocating in the relationship. Alice had become needy and clingy, but the fact that Lara Perkins was back, and presented a second chance at her first love might have had something to do with it as well.

When Lara was hired by Kit as the new chef at the Planet she and Dana tried the old ex’s being friend’s thing but soon the old flame reignited and they rekindled their romance. To say Alice didn’t handle the breakup or the fact that Dana and Lara had started dating again well would be grossly understated. She’d really lost it and went into a self-destructive depressive state some of which still lingered. They were slowly working their way back to where the antagonistic feelings between the three of them had dissipated somewhat but there were still awkward moments.