That spilled over into Long's tenure. But they retconned like crazy for the Dinah story. Ross and Vanessa's backstory changed from snootty Vanessa dumping Ross for not being rich enough to Vanessa being left preggers in high school while shoehorning in a HS romance with Calla for Ross, too.
I get the impulse to give major characters secret children to help build up the teen population, but that was so awkward. The one good thing that could have come out of it was Ross and Vanessa getting a real romantic story, but yeah, Long put a very quick end to that in service of Reva's story.
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