Eli, Princess Grace, Alan, and Johnny Orange
“Run away with me, Eli.”
Ever since I was a little boy, my dream was to find one special man to love.
“Yes,” I’d say. “Yes!”
Someone sweet-natured and funny, adventurous yet stable, mature but silly, comforting and strong.
“To be together for ever and ever.”
Back in the late eighties, I’d play out my future with our housekeeper, Bette, and some dolls at the huge woodblock table in the Wentworth mansion’s kitchen.
“Because I’ve never known a love like yours.”
Bette loved soap opera dialogue. A statuesque blond with an hourglass figure and silvery highlights that might have been the start of some gray, she had the look to be the matriarch of one of the wealthiest families on The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live, or Another World. B
