The
Diner of Love
3503 Angel Square Court
Llanview, PA
"Nothin' Could Be Finer Than Some
Lovin' In the Diner"
"There ain't no lovin' like some diner lovin', hey ho"
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"Nothin' Could Be Finer Than Some
Lovin' In the Diner" |
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HOLDEN FAMILY HISTORY PAGE 1
1987 The
Official Story Nineteen eighty-seven brought the
arrival of Max Holden, an irresistible charmer with big dreams.
Max showed up in Llanview to ask Maria Roberts, a friend of his late
mother, Patricia, for a loan to enable him to fulfill his lifelong dream of
buying the Bella Vista ranch in Argentina.
As soon as Maria saw Max talking with Tina, it suddenly dawned on her
that his handsome newcomer could be of use to her!. Maria hated Tina—she wanted her out of Cord’s life once
and for all__and Max Holden would provide the ways and means to make it happen. Maria agreed to give Max a substantial loan on one condition: He must somehow find a way to lure Tina out of town. Max eagerly accepted the mission, unaware that though separated from Cord, Tina was pregnant with his baby! Cord didn’t know, either. When Tina got news of her delicate condition, she left a message on Cord’s answering machine, but Maria got the message first and erased it! Thinking Cord didn’t care that she was carrying his child, Tina fled town with Max. Their destination: Argentina! In Buenos Aires, Max headed to the
ranch and discovered to his horror that its owner, Don Alonzo, had been
murdered. Max and Tina soon
stumbled upon a drug ring operated on the premises by the evil Dante Medina and
Jamie Sanders, who had fled to Buenos Aires to avoid drug charges leveled
against him in Llanview. Now, Max and Tina, who was posing as his wife, found
their lives in danger because he owned the Bella Vista.
Dante Medina wanted the ranch—and he would do anything to get it. Max knew Dante Medina all to well.
Only a few weeks earlier,
Max had romanced his impressionable daughter, Gabrielle, before leaving for
Argentina and heading home to the United States.
At first, Gabrielle was thrilled to hear that Max was back! She hurried
out to meet him, only to discover that he was married to Tina, or so she
mistakenly believed. Dismayed,
Gabrielle held back tears, and didn’t tell Max her big news that she was
pregnant with his child! When Cord finally discovered that Tina
was having his baby, he headed to Buenos Aires to try to convince her to return.
Kate Sanders (who knew that her brother Jamie was hiding out there) journeyed
with him. Cord and Kate grew close
as they shared a sizzling tango in the streets of Buenos Aires. Cord and Tina were reunited briefly,
before Cord was knocked unconscious and Tina was taken hostage by Jamie Sanders
and Dante Medina, who planned to flee with her to Brazil. As they prepared to leave, Gabrielle suddenly arrived and
pleaded with her father to let Tina go free.
Just then, Jamie decided to take Gabrielle hostage, too! Dante, refusing
to let his daughter get involved, tried to stop Jamie.
A scuffle ensued, and a horrified Gabrielle watched as Jamie Sanders shot
her father dead. In desperation, Jamie forced Tina into
a small boat he had hidden in a jungle river.
As he made his way down the river with Tina as hostage, a shot rang out,
hitting Jamie. He fell into the
rushing water, seemingly dead. Tina,
unable to free herself, could only pray as she tumbled over the ferocious Iguazu
Falls and disappeared into the swirling waters. After a fruitless search, Cord and
Kate headed back to Llanview together. Max
followed, selling his ranch and investing the money in Delia Garretson’s new
fashion design business. Max’s
straitlaced brother, Steve, joined him in Llanview. Cord was devastated by Tina’s
“death.” Despite her lies and
their separations, he still loved her dearly.
He also mourned the death of his unborn son, just as anguished Kate
bemoaned her loss of her wayward brother. Cord
and Kate comforted each other in their time of grief.
Upon arriving home, Kate was doubly shocked to discover that her parents,
Charles and Judith, had divorced. In rapid time, Judith was seeing Dorian’s
ex-husband, Herb Callison. As news of Tina Roberts’s
“death” spread through Llanview, Cord’s mother, Maria, was wracked with
guilt over her role in Tina’s demise. She
admitted to Clint that yes, she’d encouraged Max to take Tina out of town, and
she’d lent him the money to buy the ranch.
However, Maria claimed to have done this only because she thought Max
would be good for Tina! Lying
through her teeth, Maria said she never dreamed Tina was really pregnant.
Her argument proved convincing—Clint believed her. As the weeks passed, Kate and Cord
grew even closer, much to the chagrin of Kate’s snooty grandmother, Elizabeth
Sanders. Fearing that Kate was
falling in love with Cord (whom she considered beneath her), Elizabeth too
action. To keep them apart, she
secretly arranged for Kate to go to Egypt on an archaeological dig. Cord grew alarmed at the thought that Kate would leave town.
She couldn’t go. He loved her! Driven
to act, Cord professed his deep feelings to Kate, who decided to stay in
Llanview. Within days, Cord asked
Kate to marry him. In April, Gabrielle Medina, who heard
rumors of a white woman being kept alive in the jungle, sent out a guide to
investigate. He returned with a
feverish and weak Tina. As her
fever subsided, a bereft Tina told Gabrielle that she must have miscarried her
baby in her terrifying tumble over the falls. When Gabrielle went into labor, Tina
helped in the delivery of her beautiful baby boy.
Believing that Tina was married to Maz—and that she could give the baby
a good life—Gabrielle turned her newborn son over to Tina. Tina hurried back to Llanview with the
baby, whom she named Al after Cord’s late “father.”
Upon her return to Llanview, Tina was aghast to discover that Cord was
about the marry Kate Sanders. Hailing
a cab, she raced to the church, arriving just seconds after the ceremony.
The wedding guest shrieked in horror as Tina barreled through the church
doors, with baby Al tucked safely in her arms, and promptly fainted! Overwhelmed with the cataclysmic
series of events, Cord was faced with a dilemma.
Should he stay with Kate? With
Tina’s return, their marriage was now invalid.
Or should he reconcile with Tina, and make a life with their baby? After careful consideration, Cord told Tina that
he would do right by the child, but he wanted to begin a new life with
Kate. Despondent, Tina tried trick
after trick to win Cord back. Kate’s anxiety grew as Cord spent more and more
time with Tina and baby Al. Cord
became anxious when Kate rescued her former boyfriend, mad scientist Patrick
London, from prison on the island of Zaroon. Patrick proved even more devious than
Tina in his quest to win Kate away from Cord.
When he botched an attempt to kill Cord with an exploding camera, the
demented Dr. London was sent to prison. Strangely,
he was very quietly bailed out by Elizabeth Sanders, who arranged for Patrick to
be transferred to a mental institution. Together,
Patrick and Elizabeth plotted to get their revenge on Cord and the Buchanans. When Maria Roberts learned from
Gabrielle that baby Al was not Cord’s and Tina’s child, she threatened to
expose Tina if she didn’t grant Cord a divorce.
Tina had no choice but to end her marriage to the man she loved.
At the same time, Maria became unhinged. She wanted Clint Buchanan all for herself, and that meant she
would have to murder Viki—and frame Tina for the crime! Wearing a blonde wig,
Maria tried to run down Viki in her car. Fortunately, Viki was saved by her
gardener, Gilbert…who bore more than a striking resemblance to her guardian
angel, Virgil. Next, Marie applied
a deadly poison to a pair of earrings that Tina planned to give to Viki for her
birthday. The poison, designed to
kill on contact, accidentally spilled on Maria during a scuffle with Tina, who
watched in horror as Maria fell to the floor—dead! Cord anxiously prepared for his second
wedding to Kate. When he arrived at
Maria’s apartment to invite her to the wedding, Cord was horrified to discover
the corpse. The wedding was
postponed while Tina was arrested for murder.
Max stood by her throughout the ordeal.
During Tina’s trial, the truth that Gabrielle and Max were really baby
Al’s parents came out. Tina was
found guilty and sent to jail, where she encountered Jamie Sanders, who also had
miraculously returned from the dead only to be captured and incarcerated.
Even more vengeful than before, Jamie wanted Tina dead! Fearing for Tina’s safety, Max and
Cord busted her out of prison. During
the prison break, Jamie Sanders escaped, too.
Cord returned to Llanview, while Tina and Max hid out in a monastery,
Monk’s Hollow. Alone
together, they made passionate love. When
new evidence surfaced, Tina was cleared of the murder charge. Back at home, Max tried to forget Tina
by having a torrid affair with a suave and sexy older businesswoman, Lee Halpern,
who was on Llanview to open a branch of her shady consulting firm, Dyna-women.
In reality, Lee was actually Tom Dennison’s not-so-late wife, Carol,
who was believed to have died in a car accident.
Tom’s teenage daughter, Mari Lynn, had a bitter reconciliation with the
mother she had never known. Fortunately,
the girl found comfort in the arms of her compassionate boyfriend, Wade Coleman. Asa was delighted to reunite with
Lee’s friend, Renee Divine. Renee,
who ran a brothel in Nevada, had once had a fling with Asa.
Now, years later, they picked up where they left off, and Renee was so
charmed by her handsome millionaire that she gave up her “madam” business
and stayed in Llanview to start a new life. Realizing that Max could not get Tina
out of his system, Lee married the newly divorced Charles Sanders—who died of
a heart attack while making love to his new wife on their wedding night in Lake
Tahoe. Back in Llanview, Max
proposed to Tina. In Argentina, Gabrielle was shocked
when she saw, while leafing through a fashion magazine, that Delila had taken
credit for fashions that she had designed.
Gabrielle got even angrier when she discovered that Max was Delilia’s
partner. He’d taken advantage of
her once again! Gabrielle came to
Llanview to confront him. Max’s amazing discovery that he was
actually Al’s father did not deter him from pursuing Tina.
Despite her lingering feelings for Cord, Tina finally agreed to become
Mrs. Max Holden. Together, they
searched in vain for Tina’s real miracle baby, who was not dead after all! Assisted
by Palupe Indians, a feverish Tina had given birth to a boy in the jungles of
Argentina. Together, Max and Tina searched for the child, unaware that
the baby, whom they call Milago (Spanish for “miracle”) was being held by
Max’s enemy, Rolo, an old associate of Gabrielle’s father, Dante Medina.
Rolo planned to use the baby to get revenge on his nemesis. On the run, Jamie Sanders hurried to
Monk’s Hollow, where he found Tina with Viki.
As he was about to leave with them as hostages, Clint arrived—and Jamie
shot him in the head. Max managed to subdue Jamie (who was
jailed) while an ambulance rushed Clint back to Llanview Hospital for emergency
surgery. After hours on the
operating table, Clint survived. However,
his surgeons were unable to remove a bullet fragment, which left him blind.
Worse, if the fragment shifted, it could kill him instantly! Viki had a difficult time getting
Clint to accept his blindness. Self-pitying
and bitter, Clint needed help and he found it in the person of Sarah Gordon, his
tough-as-nails therapist. Sarah was
a tough teacher! She refused to
allow Viki or the rest of the Buchanan family to treat Clint like a helpless
baby. Sarah’s firm approach put
her in constant conflict with her patient who rebelled at her policy that the
could live a much better life as a blind man by doing things for himself.
As a result of her work with Clint, Sarah won the love and affection of
the entire Buchanan family. This
was especially true of Cord, who turned to Sarah after Kate finally called it
quits with him and left town to pursue her scientific studies.
(SOURCE: Warner, Gary (1998). One
Life to Life: Thirty Years of Memories. New York: ABC/Daytime TV Press,
116-123.)
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