I have been watching Y&R off and on my whole life. Hell, I was probably watching it while in the womb! My Grandma Gummerson watched it (and I remember when The Bold and The Beautiful started and watching that with her also), my Grandma Martin watched it, and my mother watched it. I vividly remember spending the day with my Grandma Gummerson during summer break when I was a kid, and she'd have the TV on downstairs while she did her ironing. She ironed sheets and Grandpa's boxers, and the smell of starch is as real as the lemon water sitting next to me. And hearing the theme song (Nadia's Theme - a song I insisted on learning how to play on the piano when I took lessons) to the show always brings me back to a simpler time. Being raised in a small town, on a farm, with really strong values, an amazing family...there are so many fabulous memories.
I have known these "people", the characters, as long as I have my own family.
So when one of them dies, it feels like someone in my family died, too.
Today's Y&R episode was the tribute episode to Jeanne Cooper, who played Katherine Chancellor.
It was beautifully done and I cried the whole hour. What a wonderful woman! She impacted so many people. And to have the same job for half her life! Incredible!!
"Sometimes I think the rain is from "a higher power" giving us back all the tears that have been let go for those that" we have loved. - Luke Boettcher
I shed a few of those tears today. Daytime television lost a great one.
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