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[DeeeDee]

Amen.

[quartermainefan]

I think you overestimate actor loyalty. Most people could not even tell you who plays who. And historically we see that it often doesn't matter because that man has been coming on soaps for decades saying "the role of XXXXX is now being played by YYYYY" and the audience doesn't miss a beat. Take Y&R and a couple of their main characters, Jack and Jill. The audience does not seem to care the current versions are not the originals or have any notion these aren't the "real" ones. We are going to see this again this week on GH, where Greg Vaughan has vanished and Jonathan Jackson is now magically Lucky Spencer. The audience will blink, and by the end of one scene will adjust. I doubt GH will lose even 0.01 worth of ratings by Vaughan's absence.