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Another World did what at the time I considered to be a copycat of AMC. During the summer some of the younger people left Bay City & went to New York.

Much later, Rachel left Bay City & moved to New York. A beautician there became important to story back home as well as in the city. Carl followed Rachel to NY. It was there & then that they did the Poet's Walk & basically their romance began there during the Christmas season. The beautician was Loretta. 

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Thanks. You may be right about union benefits being like Medicare Plus. So that would be an incentive to return even after 65 years of age.  But at some point, actors do get to retire without returning to work.  And surely they don't lose benefits at that point.  I'm sure it's a complicated situation, just like health insurance for anyone in the US.   

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I know we did. But having watched more of '84 now, I'm not sure Long knew what to do with anyone other than Reva. The Spaulding business angle practically disappears once Alan leaves, and while Alex spins some business plots, they're thin and boil down to her obsession with Lujack. 

On one level, it was consistent for Vanessa to throw herself into a new project (or romance). But at some point, Vanessa should've gotten as mad as hell at Alexandra (for blackmailing Henry into selling some/all of his Spaulding stock) and plotted revenge.

Long is so under-interested in Vanessa, I'm surprised she wrote her back in as quickly as she did in '89, and then threw her back into the Spaulding realm. 

ATWT used Montega off and on throughout Marland's tenure, although not nearly to the extent of GL's San Cristobel. I'm blanking on any other soap really doing more than an extended summer story, but even those got tedious at some point.

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I'm never sure how many radio episodes of Guiding Light are around. I see that the Library of Congress has a number of 1942-1946 episodes we can't listen to, and a number of early-mid '50s episodes are on Youtube, as is July 15, 1940.

This collection of radio soaps has an episode from June 10, 1940. I can't remember if this one had already been around or not.

Radio Soap Operas - From Transcription Discs & Second Generation Reels : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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