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Subject: gh update 5/22/95
Date: Mon, 22 May 95 15:07:12 PDT
From: kathy@gundog.lbl.gov (Kathy Ellington)

         General Hospital Update for Monday, May 22, 1995

Stone is Advised to Forget About Making Plans for New Year's Eve,
or Christmas, or Thanksgiving, or even Halloween.  Er, Labor Day?
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Robin tries to comfort Stone; he tells her that his life has taken on an air
of Dickensian unreality [well, maybe not in those exact words].  He urges her
to dump his infection-riddled self and find some guy who isn't crawling with
microbes.  She declines and says she's signed on for the long haul.  Robin
even chirps that if Stone is feeling better maybe they can bop around on
Memorial Day.  Stone replies that he doesn't want to think about the future.
Alan and Kevin blow in with the test results.  Alan breaks the bad news.
Stone has advanced AIDS and they advise him to zip himself into a baggie
immediately and the only sex he should consider is over the phone.  Stone, in
tears, hears Alan prescribe the drug AZT.  He tells Stone that there is no
alternative treatment; Stone says to go ahead with the AZT [guess that blows
the Memorial Day picnic, huh?].  Kevin tries to comfort Stone and tells him
that he mustn't lose hope; he tells him to keep an upbeat attitude.
Robin insists they're in this thing together; "I hope not" Stone replies.
Later on, Robin calls Unkie Mac and tells him that she's spending the night
in the hospital [Mac has visions of I.V.'s dripping Spanish Fly and those
hospital beds that crank into about 75 different positions].  She assures him
that they'll talk real soon.

Monica and Paige Sort Through Her New Mexico Junk
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At the Q mansion, Monica, Paige and Emily sort through the goodies from
Paige's apartment in New Mexico.  Alan gently teases Emily about the start of
the school year and why doesn't she bring her pet tarantulas to school? Alan
gets a call from the hospital lab.  He is distressed and exclaims into the
phone, "that's impossible!"  Later on, as they're sifting through the dreck,
Emily's feeling a bit low.  She tells the gals that it feels weird to be
going through her stuff in a strange place.  Monica keys in and reminds her
that the Q mansion is home now and that Monica is there for Emily to confide
in. Boring dialogue between Paige and Monica, yadda-yadda-yadda, about being
friends, missing each other, being frightened.  They cry, they hug.

The Wedding Juggernaut Rolls Inexorably Forward
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In the Cerullo kitchen, somewhere in the Bowels of Bensonhurst...
Lois' mom is baking the wedding cake.  She's beavering away, making a "test"
cake when there's a banging on the door.  There stands a guy named Danny who
demands of Mrs Cerullo, "is it true that Lois is getting married?"  Upon
seeing him she throws up her hands in despair/disgust and says "do I need
THIS?"  Danny Zakarowitz is the guy's name.  He claims he wants to keep Lois
from making the "biggest mistake of her life".  This guy was a member of a
band Lois once managed.  He was insanely jealous of Lois and broke up the
band (literally).  She escaped from him and ran from Brooklyn to Buffalo.
Danny said one of Lois' brothers told him of the imminent marriage; he claims
that if Lois could make the choice now, she would choose him over this bum,
Eddie Maine.  Meanwhile, back in Port Chuck.  Lois and Ned are still
deep into the marriage doo-doo; she is worried about how to haul all the junk
she needs from Port Charles back to Brooklyn for the wedding.  Then Lois gets
a premonition of disaster; something's going to go wrong! Ned reassures her
that everything's on track.  Back in Bensonhurst, Mrs Cerullo sings Ned's
praises and threatens to personally geld Danny if he shows his scummy face at
Lois wedding.  He insists that Lois will forgive him if he could only see her.
She finally tosses him out of her kitchen.  Later on, Ma Cerullo phones Lois
and tells her about Danny's visit.  She tells Lois that Danny wants to pick up
the old pieces then says she threw the guy out.  Lois is worried that Danny
will do "something stupid" but Ma assures her that there's nothing to worry
about.  They hang up.  Ned inquires if anything's wrong; Lois says
everything's PEACHY!!

Lucy Confides in the Livestock, Damian Rings her Chimes
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Lucy seeks out Kevin and tremblingly tells him it's the one-year anniversary
of B.J.'s death.  She claims she needs some of his excellent psycho-babble to
comfort her.  He, in turn, tells her it's been a hell of a day and that one
of his patients is in real trouble.  He feels helpless. Lucy assures him that
he's the top shrink in Port Charles and has the longest "diploma" she's ever
seen!  They agree to simply comfort each other.  A ringing phone interrupts
their reverie.  It's Alan who reports that Stone's medical tests are in.  He
says that Kevin's patient is going to need him.  Kevin splits for GH.  Lucy
pouts for a while then confides her frustration in Sigmund, who quacks rather
intelligently at her.  There's a knock at the door.  Lucy flies to answer it,
thinking that Kevin has returned.  She opens the door and it's old Sneer-Boy
(Damian) standing there....Double Ack!  He enters the room and Lucy introduces
him to Sigmund.  Damian offers to assuage her lonliness and, when she rebuffs
him, he reminds her that he saved her life.  Then he says he understands her
completely because they're two of a kind.  She bridles and says she's in love
with Kevin and Kevin only. Damian smirkily replies that he's the kind of lover
who would never leave Lucy alone if she needed him.  Damian insists that
there's a powerful "something" between them and why does Lucy deny it?  He
takes his leave then and announces he's off to get his end wet...he's heading
toward Katherine.  Kate's own end, at that very moment, is warming a barstool
at the Outback Club, flirting with Mac and swigging down 3-olive Martinis.
She offers to listen his troubles and guesses correctly that Stone is on his
mind.  Mac is worried about his hoodlum influence on his precious niece's
life [if only he knew about Stone's condition...he could stop worrying].
Damian wanders in and demands a table. He tells Kate that he's just stopped
by to visit Lucy Coe.  "W-H-A-A-T??" she demands angrily.  Damian chides her
for being jealous and tells her it's all part of the game plan.  He says that
he's got to regain Lucy's trust.

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