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As I got older and began enduring epic battles with my mom over otherwise trivial matters, we’d call a truce every night to watch our time-shifted soaps. And, as with most things, she was proven wrong. Sister Dorothy, my teacher and tormentor, didn’t think this was a good idea, of course. By the time we got our first VCR in 1979 I was hooked like a playground crack head. When she went back to work in the late ‘70s, my job was to watch her “stories” after school and report on what happened. And yes, my obsessive (what else is new?) daytime drama habit was entirely the fault of my mother. When I tell people that, as a 13-year-old eighth grader, I watched five hours of soap operas every day, they look at me like I’m a survivor of child abuse. Here’s something I probably shouldn’t admit, but what the hell: in 1982 I was a regular viewer of six daytime soap operas: The Edge of Night, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Search for Tomorrow, Another World, and Texas (a daytime knock-off of Dallas.)

#SOAP OPERA NETWORK ANOTHER WORLD UPDATE#

UPDATE 12/28/15 – Updated info in italics

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