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Sent:        7/8/96 8:22 AM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

FAMILY DAY IN OLD PORT CHUCK:  Thursday June 27

1. QUARTERMANIA
	Edward is discussing the ELQ legal counsel job with a very depressed-
looking Justus.  Ned comes in, antennae all a-quiver.  He looks at Justus and
says "THAT used to be MY seat."  After this juvenile pronouncement, he
reminds Edward of the rules.  Justus is willing to leave, and Ned asks
where is the fiery eloquence of old.  The Silver Wolf, Edward, grins:
"Ned, are you trying to tell me that you won't support the hiring of your
own cousin?"  Edward suggests amending the bylaws, but Justus counters
that he's nobody's dancing bear.  Ned asks them what it is that Edward
has on Justus.  Justus and Ned spar verbally with Edward looking
gleefully on.  Ned points out: "He may want his nearest and dearest
gathered around the throne, but he fully expects only one of us to come
out alive."  Luke comes in:  "Look at this, suitable for framing.  The
Quartermaine Testosterone Trust."
	Luke goes on: he knows why Edward and Justus are there, but why
is Ned there?  (Ned's smug grin is slipping at this point).  Oh, yes, he
lives there.  Well then, the question remains, why is LUKE there?  Well,
Edward has asked him over.  Edward asks Ned to leave.  (We've discussed
the idiocy of leaving the door open in that house, but Ned does, and
apparently, since we don't see him, he doesn't eavesdrop, but there's no
smugness at all left.  [*hooray*!])  Luke asks: "Don't you two talk?  You
only huddle."  Edward tries to bribe Luke into being quiet by offering to
help Lulu.   Luke says if he was the one-in-twenty-million genetic match
Luke would dig his marrow out with a silver spoon himself.   Luke asks
Justus if it's worth it, selling out to the Q's.  Justus says he was
going to throw himself off a bridge [Ah. Someone else in town knows about
the bridge.] but he didn't want anyone sending him flowers.  Luke leaves.
	Edward and Justus discuss the video.  Justus considers the irony
of how he used to think maybe Luke would embarrass him.  Ned struts back
in, while Justus leaves.  Edward tells Ned he made a prize jackass of
himself, and Ned asks if there wasn't the same little talk when Tracy was
CEO of ELQ.  Speak of the devil, here is a maid with a package resembling
a fifth of whiskey and a note from Tracy: "How DARE you make me a
grandmother!"  [Updater gleefully rubs hands!]

2.  BOBBIE AND CARLY
	Carly is returning the dress, and informs Tony that she's worried
about the Nurse's Program entrance examination.  He gives her a
role-playing dry run.  She starts off with a "poor pathetic me my mother
died" type story but Tony stops her, the board has heard that one
before.  Don't use nursing as a form of therapy.  Carly shows how quickly
she can think on her feet by changing the story (with this kind of smarts,
how come she had to change her HS grades?) to one of how she saw her mother
had no inner resources and how she herself wants to get somewhere on her
own, not just because of her looks.  She wants to contribute to society.
	Tony takes a phone call and Carly goes up to their bedroom.
After she hangs the dress up, she starts to pretend to be Bobbie by
holding up dresses, trying the perfume, putting jewelry on.  Considering
her usual thieving tendencies, this is fairly harmless, but when Bobbie
catches her at it, she panics.  Let me go, forget you ever knew me, this
is no good, etc.  Bobbie is puzzled, but figures there's got to be a guy
at the bottom of it.  They have a mother-daughter type chat.  Carly's
"boy on the side" (not a term she uses with Bobbie) is not working out
that way, the hormones have kicked in.  Bobbie soothes her tears and
insists she take the dress and keep it to entice the young man.
Downstairs a slightly dazed Carly tells Tony that she'd like to do
something for Bobbie, like give her a birthday party.  Tony tells Bobbie,
later, that "that young woman has a crush on someone in this family, and
it isn't me."

3.  THE YOUNG JACKS FAMILY
	Brenda is on the phone to Robin encouraging her about her Nurses'
Ball speech.  She plans to get together with Robin soon, but Jax tells
her to call Robin back and invite her along.  Brenda is showing Jax the
"Insider's Port Charles", so they wind up on the beach.  They've been
married four weeks now (soap opera accordian time!) and Robin feels a bit
uncomfortable.  She tries to find out about Mac and Jax, but Jax ain't
telling.  They talk about Jason.  Brenda races Jax to the water.  Then
Brenda and Robin discuss Jason.  Jax has arranged waterskiing while he
was out swimming.
	Afterwards, at home [is this still the PC Hotel? Surely they
should ALSO move to the Penthouse?] Brenda is telling Robin about how
much she is liking Jax.  "I was with Sonny after the Nurses' Ball.  I
know I was playing with fire.  I was just really worried about him and I
told myself I could reach out to him and comfort him, but there's no
comforting him now.  Everything just came back -- all that hope -- and
THEN -- all that hopelessness, and desperation, and for the first time,
ever, I stood there and I thought 'WHY?' -- y'know -- 'for WHAT?' and I
was so GLAD I could come home to my husband.  To Jax."  (Natch, Jax hears
none of that, but appears just in time to hear the following:)  "It just
took going to Sonny after the Nurses' Ball for me to realize how much he
means to me."
	After Robin has left, Jax tells Brenda that after all, he didn't
expect the marriage to work out right away.  She, still in a daze of
happiness, doesn't hear this, and tells him "Every hour of every day, you
mean more to me."