Omg thanks for posting! That's my Victoria, my Victor, my Larry, and my Vinnie, talking about my Meredith! (I started watching OLTL about 8 months after this aired). But it's not my Jim Craig! I don't if I ever saw this one before. I loved Larry and Meredith together. Cool to see Jim Storm's Larry there! in a sense, Jim Storm and his brother Michael Storm literally felt like the same Larry to my 11-year-old self with no soap magazines or internet to learn about the recasting. I saw them both on broadcast TV, thinking they were the same actor. Michael Storm is of course the Larry I really know but I hadn't realized that he was originally portrayed by the brother until many years later, probably reading it on "amcpages.com"(soapcentral) or on one of the Pine Valley fan sites. I don't think I was watching on whatever day Larry was recast if they had one of those "the part of Larry Wolek will now be played by... " voiceovers -- I don't remember that. I didn't recognize the nurse, yet she seems familiar. Thanks for the youtube's description explaining that she's character Karen Martin, I name I don't remember. But then reading what @Vee said "the first "Karen (Martin) Wolek," a scheming nurse who got involved with Larry IIRC, married him and was swiftly dispatched after a while. She was a spoiler for him and Meredith." So then I found something about her on the Larry Wolek wikipedia page. This explains SO MUCH. I of course saw the "1970s Karen" (with both castings including Judith Light) but I probably thought she was the original (maybe?) . . . Perhaps I was confused by there being two Karens marrying Larry!!! One the other hand, I strongly remember Karen and Jenny Wolek's arrival in mid-1970s as sisters who were COUSINS of the brothers Larry and Vince (distant cousins, thus making Karen's romance with Larry accepted). It's likely that I had completely forgotten that the * other * Karen character (Karen Martin from this video) ever existed, although I followed the OG Meredith/Larry romance closely.
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