Farewell to My Guilty Pleasure

Somewhere around the age of 10, I watched my first soap opera. It was a pre-pre-Twilight vampire story known as Dark Shadows.  If I remember correctly, it was around the same time that, while home sick from school one day, I tuned in to that station a little earlier than usual and saw General Hospital for the first time and, perhaps, even One Life to Live. I didn't really understand anything about those shows until a few years later... perhaps junior high, but definitely high school. General Hospital was the hot show while I was in college. Kids would schedule [...]