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Sent:        11/12/96 12:35 PM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

UPDATE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

A talky talky day, but not much happened, apart from the Return of the
Ominous Knell of Doom!

AT THE QUARTERMAINES
Mac sees Miranda in the Q lobby and says "M'randa?"  which sounds like
"Brenda" when he says it, as well.  Why did TPTB pick such similar names?
They hug with Sonny watching.  Mac and Miranda go outside where they hug
again.  She had wanted to die after the accident, she couldn't have Jax
looking at her with horror and pity.  She claims this way was the best
for everyone.  She says Mac was always a sucker for damsels in distress.
They go off to the hospital to see how John is.

Ned applauds Sonny and they talk.  Sure, John is dirty, buyt what does
that have to do with Jax?  Ned cusses out Sonny for breaking Brenda's
heart.  (Pot. Kettle. Black. With friends like Ned, why does she need
enemies?) Sonny uses a gangster metaphor: "Brenda got caught in the
crossfire.  It was unfortunate but unavoidable."  Sonny points out that
Ned is being two-faced about hurting Brenda.  And "her so-called husband
is a liar, a bigamist, and a fraud."  (This to Ned, a liar, bigamist, and
fraud.  I'm surprised Sonny could keep a straight face!)  Ned says he got
zip.  He doesn't think Brenda will EVER forgive Sonny.  Edward chortles
in with "the same speechwriter."  Sonny doesn't buy it.

THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT "GENERAL HOSPITAL"
John is in the ER.  Brenda, Jax, and Lady Jane are pushed out while
Monica works her magic with the paddles and John gets a heartbeat.
Justus talks to Brenda, Brenda talks to Keesha, and tells about Miranda.
Jerry is on the phone.  Jane goes to see John.  Edward calls Justus to
check on Keesha and John.  He plans to make business hay on John's
illness.  There's a real estate deal in Tampa which will now go his way.
Edward also tells Ned that he figures Brenda will do well monetarily if
she decides to divorce Jax.  Meanwhile, Brenda and Jax will talk later,
but she says nothing has changed.  She has a few words with Jane while
Jax goes in to see John, and then goes to the phone (calling whom?) and
sees Miranda at the elevator.  She tells Miranda that John is doing better.
Meanwhile, Mac and Mike are discouraging Sonny from entering the hospital.

Alan, who somehow had time to change clothes, talks to Monica for a
second about John before he heads off to the ER to see about an
accident.  But before he can get there, Lonnie, a 12-yr-old former
resident of Ward House, is brought in with a drug overdose.  Keesha and
Justus are appalled.  Keesha raves.  They miss MaryMae.  Lonnie dies,
Alan and Monica talk, and the Ominous Knell of Doom nearly drowns out
Monica's remark that she is "grateful that Emily is smart enough to know
better."  Can you say "foreshadowing?"