The subject of Eli Trager came up today in the weekly OLTL thread. Can anyone tell me who he was and if there are any YouTube clips? Thanks

Geoffrey Wigdor played Eli Trager (1997 - 1998)

Eli was an HIV positive boy who inherited the virus from his mother. His mother died and there was no one to pay for his medical treatments. His spunk and attitude got into Toddís heart and he donated all the money for his medical treatments. He stayed with Andrew Carpenter for a while but Carlotta offered a permanent solution by fostering him. He got into some trouble, like painting the angel statute in Angel Square in red and stealing Hank's motorcycle but Carlotta always stood by him.

Edited June 5, 200817 yr by chrishntr

There's one whole episode that features him on yotuube at least--i watched it last Oct or so but he's not tagged in it. hang on I'll try to find it

Found it--just had to search through Carmaker's many vids (she has some great late 90s AMC and OLTL)! THis was near the start I believe (second month?) of Labine's brief run as HW Andrew find out that Eli's mom has died and want sMaggie and him to adopt him(I think) deals with the Eli wants to adopt him I think... Here's part 1 though there's 5 or 6 parts to the episode (it's the full episode so you have to find his part ) The July 25th ep--the next one, is up online in full too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cbc6qOr808

Edited June 5, 200817 yr by EricMontreal22

Thanks so much!