The Last Soap Fan

Greetings! Ok, so I'm probably not the very last soap fan but I find we are a dying breed. I have been watching daytime drama most of my life...literally. As a toddler, my mother worked and I stayed with my grandmother during the day.  One day when my mother came to pick me up, I asked her if she wanted to know what happened that day on the "Young and the Westless." I started daycare not too long after that.  But alas! It was not enough to quell my affinity for this genre. Holidays, summer vacations, sick and snow days were always an opportunity for me to check in with the citizens of my favorite fictional towns. Most kids my age did the same. They too had spent time in the care of older women who tuned in daily to at least one of the many daytime dramas that aired in the 70s, 80s and 90s.  Maybe that's one of the reasons I'm drawn to it, because of the longevity. Most of my friends outgrew soaps in their teens or early twenties. I...