Free Preview: Playmate of the Month December 1988 - Katariina Souri
Yep, she's really Finnish - a model of Scandinavian design who comes to you by way of Helsinki, Rome and Rapid City, South Dakota. Confusing? Her hair color changes as often as the weather in her homeland, her address changes almost as often and her accent is a concatenation of Finn lilt and South Dakota drawl. "Yep," says Katariina Souri, "it is a little confusing. I guess I'm a combination of things, Finnish and American. Is that good or bad?" In this case, all to the good - the collision of hemispheres has brought forth a confusing, intriguing combination of the best of East and West. Katariina, the lissome emerald-eyed only child of two attorneys, grew up "spoiled and happy" in Helsinki, where she became, at the age of 15, the finest-looking bowling champion in history. "My dad loved to bowl, and he used to take me along when I was little," she explains. "I got pretty good and even won the national championship for girls under 18. Daddy was very proud of that." Shortly thereafter, a bit weary of snow and solitude - "Finland was too quiet for me" - Katariina joined an exchange program, jetted to remotest Rapid City and gave her high school classmates a crash course in Eurostyle. Stevens High School is still reeling. "They found me pretty wild," Katariina says of the teachers and schoolmates she bowled over at Stevens High. "I dressed punk. I dyed my hair blonde - or red and black - or wore it in a Mohawk. I wore wigs, and sometimes a tuxedo, to school." To top it off, this...
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