I watched in shock when Mariah came to town to haunt Sharon. I watched Michael Baldwin stalk Christine before he became a good guy. I watched Cricket and Danny fall in love. I watched David Kimble get plastic surgery and have the word KILLER carved into his forehead. I watched Jill and Katherine fight over Phillip. I am telling you this little piece of my Y&R viewing history, so you will know I know this show. In truth, it was Elton John who eventually got me kicked out of Baptist Sunday school for singing "The Bitch is Back" at youth group. Still, I was willing to risk eternal damnation to watch all that exquisite sin. It would have been considered sinful if I had gotten busted. Should a little Baptist girl have been watching that trashy show at age twelve? Maybe not. Ed, and I Dream of Jeannie, but this was an entirely different type of fantasy. I had never seen anything like it before! I grew up on crazy TV like Mr. A very glamorous woman I wish I looked like named Lorie, played by the gorgeous Jamie Lynn Bauer. (The original one, pre-Hoff.) A wealthy dame named Katherine in an opulent mansion. A hunk with feathered hair named Snapper. Her stories were The Young and the Restless, and oh, boy, did it make my little tween heart pound inside my chest! That haunting piano music. She said, "Girls, get your plates and come sit in the living room with me, but you have to be quiet because my stories are on." Sandy's mom was from West Virginia and believed in big country breakfasts with biscuits and gravy, ham, eggs, and hash browns - just piles of deliciousness. We stayed up too late, giggled too much, and woke up to a feast for breakfast. It was summer because her birthday was in June. Back in 1973, when I was an extremely young and restless twelve-year-old, my friend Sandy had a slumber party. While GH has been my Soap Central stomping grounds for a long time, The Young and the Restless is my first soap. If you are a multi-soap viewer like me, you may know me as a General Hospital Two Scooper.
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