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Date:        3/14/98 7:22 PM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

UPDATE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26

1. THE CEMETARY "CURE" IS NOT ALL THAT COMPLETE

A frenetic Brenda is making plans.  Robin asks what's up.
Brenda has a Big Surprise for Jax.  Robin, sensibly, asks how she's
affording it.  Brenda is going to max out her credit cards and pawn her
jewelry [hey, if she can catch the rich guy, no problem, right?]
She is about to go shopping and she opens the door to Jax!  However, he
has come to see Robin.  Brenda bubbles off shopping.

Jax wonders how Robin is doing with the revelations about Carly and Michael.
He will send her back to Paris if she wants.  She doesn't.

Meanwhile, Jason is getting cold feet about asking Carly to shop for him.
She says : "You want to take care of a dead body, call Renaldo.  You
want to take care of a LIVING one, call me."  While shopping, she offers him
all sorts of confusing choices.  He's totally overwhelmed, but she says it's
not hard, "Men are my hobby, ask anyone in town."

Finally they have found the perfect suit, and Brenda bursts in and says
"You look like a wannabe."  She goes on about Jason betraying Robin
[Wish she'd make up her mind, if she has one] and how Jason should have
left.  Carly suggests Brenda go look for a nice fashionable strait-jacket
in her size.  [Yay, Carly!]

Jason tells Brenda never to hurt Robin again to get back at Sonny.
Brenda leaves, saying "You've become Sonny!"  Carly apologizes to Jason
for what her lie has done to Robin.  Jason tells her it doesn't matter,
Brenda will hate him whatever.  The Line of the Day: "These [clothes]
really made Brenda angry.  How much do I owe you?"  Carly doesn't want to
be paid for her shopping, after all, Jason has done so much for her.

Brenda, back home, tells Robin she bumped into Jason -- with Carly.  She
apologizes about the way she treated Robin "when I had my nervous breakdown."
She refuses to see that Robin, having better sense, isn't in the same
"Sonny loves me, he told me he loved me, he came to me and told me he
loved me, Sonny loves me" state.

2. FALLOUT

Liz is trying to work at Kelly's.  In Ruby's first appearance of the year,
she dashes on and says something and vanishes again.  Bobbie comes in and
asks Elizabeth how she's doing.  Liz is jumpy.  She has told Audrey, who
isn't being any help.  Bobbie finds Audrey's reaction hard to believe.
Liz is worried what they'll think at school.  She is (was, she corrects
herself) actually a virgin. Bobbie reminds her that rape is never about
sex, but about violence.  Virginity doesn't matter.  Liz tells her it DID
mattter to her.  She'd always hoped to give it up to someone nice.

Bobbie suggests going to Mercy for testing.  Liz doesn't want an AIDS
test, she just wants to lead a normal high school life.  Sarah comes in
to see how Liz is.  Liz tells her she thinks everyone knows.  Sarah is
saying "no, of course not" as Emily comes in and says "You poor thing --
I heard all about you.  It's all over the school!"

Of course, Emily means the flu.  Bobbie has come to find out what that's
about, and Sarah sits with Emily to talk to her.  Emily is offended by
Sarah's secrecy.  [I think she suspects Sarah is jealous about Nikolas.]
Audrey comes in and Em flounces out.  Audrey is still being all cheerful
and carrying on with her denial, especially with a horrified Bobbie.  Liz
decides to go for the test.  When she asks Audrey to accompany her and
Bobbie, Audrey is "too busy."  Your Fearless Updater was Really Annoyed
with Audrey then.  Audrey flusters out.

Lucky is complaining to Luke about European history and Silas Marner.
Luke thinks he's taking school too seriously.  They talk about Liz going
back to school.  Lucky wants to help.  He wants to catch the guy, and
asks for Luke's help.  Liz is so quiet and jumpy.

Lucky just can't understand why a guy would do this.  He's sorry that Liz
is ashamed.  Luke keeps taking it: "How can ANY man do this to any woman
and go on living with himself?  Go on living at all?"

Luke tells Lucky that sometimes being men makes you dumber than ever.
They take power for granted.  He reminds lucky that it happened to Liz,
not to Lucky.  Elizabeth needs to run the show, not have someone hijack
her life again.  Lucky doesn't buy it.  He's feeling guilty about not
going to the dance with Elizabeth.

Luke tells him not to take the guilt on.  Lucky is in tears, but if
Elizabeth doesn't want him to bring the guy down, he'll just have to
build HER up.  "I just hope I always treat women the way you've treated Mom."
Luke tells him: "I hope you do a lot better."

After Lucky leaves, Luke sits all alone, wrapped in a blanket, crying.