{"id":52414,"date":"2023-12-28T23:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=52414"},"modified":"2024-01-04T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:13:34","slug":"days-transcript-thursday-december-28-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/days-transcript-thursday-december-28-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Transcript Thursday, December 28, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Days of Our Lives Transcript<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dayslogo.jpg\" alt=\"Days of Our Lives logo\" width=\"235\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">Transcript provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biothane\/\">Thane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">THIS STILL NEEDS SOME EDITING!<\/p>\n<p>Ah, Chanel, Paulina, I am so sorry. I was putting out a small fire.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I understand that. I mean, you&#8217;re the chief of staff, for heaven&#8217;s sake. And I know you have a tremendous workload.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p>And so do I. Kayla, I have meetings. I am missing emails to answer, budget proposals to write. And I&#8217;ve already squandered half the day just sitting around here just twiddling my thumbs.<\/p>\n<p>Mama is not a patient person.<\/p>\n<p>So I noticed.<\/p>\n<p>I admit that. I admit that. God knows patience is not my strong suit, especially not now, when I am mayor of this wonderful city, and I simply cannot afford to neglect my duties. So please, please, Kayla, just give me whatever prescriptions I need so I can get rid of whatever this lump thing is on my neck so I can just leave this hospital and get on with my life!<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, I&#8217;m glad you made it in.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to see me, Marlena.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my pleasure. Why don&#8217;t you sit down?<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks. Have you been in therapy before?<\/p>\n<p>Here and there. Not nearly as much as I probably should have been, considering my childhood. I mean, you know my&#8211; my father was abusive, and it led me to some self-destructive behaviors. And, uh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[somber music] Right now, uh&#8211; oh, gosh, Marlena. I&#8217;m so nervous I can&#8217;t even think right now. Um&#8230; and I&#8217;m starting to get second thoughts about this. I&#8217;m not sure this was a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Why would that be?<\/p>\n<p>Well, first of all, you&#8217;re Eric&#8217;s mother. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s sound asleep.<\/p>\n<p>After a few hundred laps around the square.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Well, that&#8217;s one way to get a workout.<\/p>\n<p>Well, how lucky am I, running into Salem&#8217;s perfect little family? Out for a day of fun, I assume?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Leo, we&#8217;re having some quality family time. So if you don&#8217;t mind.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of my new duds? They were under my Christmas tree. Oh, wait, I don&#8217;t have a Christmas tree, because I don&#8217;t have a proper home&#8211; yet. But I&#8217;m planning on buying one soon. Just looking for a nice little house, preferably a contemporary. Nothing too lavish, just in the K range. Anyway, I will admit, I was expecting coal under the tree this year. But Santa must have had a change of heart, because he was surprisingly nice to naughty old me.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[soft orchestration] announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the &#8220;Days of Our Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[grunting, panting] Oh. Oh.<\/p>\n<p>[groaning] Ahh! What&#8217;s happening?<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[muffled screaming]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah?<\/p>\n<p>You know that everything we say today will be confidential? And I know you understand that I am completely impartial, but if you would rather see a different therapist, that&#8217;s completely fine.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, no. No, I don&#8217;t. I&#8211;and I do know that you would be impartial, like you said. And I know you&#8217;re the best. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] I just wanted to address the elephant in the room. That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>I understand.<\/p>\n<p>And I do think you would be helpful, and not just because you&#8217;re a gifted therapist, but because I know through Eric that you&#8211; you went through what I went through. You lost an infant.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I lost my son to SIDS. Tell me how you feel about losing your child.<\/p>\n<p>[sniffles]<\/p>\n<p>[sighing]<\/p>\n<p>[somber music] I think the&#8211;the hardest thing about losing him&#8230; I just&#8211;there&#8217;s this urge I feel. Sometimes it hits me out of nowhere, and sometimes it wakes me up at night.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about the urge.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the urge to nurse my baby. You know, the milk came down after I gave birth to him, and he was&#8211;he was taken away so quickly. And&#8211;and it stopped pretty soon after that. But the urge, it&#8217;s still there. And I still, so badly&#8211; I want to hold my little boy and nurse him and love him. And does that feeling ever go away, Marlena, that&#8211; that urge, that need to love him?<\/p>\n<p>Look, we&#8217;re trying to have a nice morning as a family.<\/p>\n<p>And you will, as soon as your lovely wife and I have discussed some pressing business. She is my lawyer, as you know.<\/p>\n<p>Eric, I&#8217;m so sorry. Do you mind just giving Leo and I a moment, please?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. You know what? I can get us some snacks and stuff. I must have left my wallet at home.<\/p>\n<p>Here.<\/p>\n<p>[clears throat] Here.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. I&#8217;ll be right over here.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;d you get that suit?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, do you love it? I ordered it online from Bergdorf Goodman, fabulous department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan immediately across town from where I used to live. Oh, how I do miss those Zabar&#8217;s bagels and Katz&#8217;s pastrami like you died and went to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>You used my credit card, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Very impressed to find out that you have a $, limit.<\/p>\n<p>My God, you can&#8217;t keep doing this. It&#8217;s costing me a fortune as it is just to put you up at the Salem Inn.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my suite, by the way&#8211; major upgrade from that dingy little room I used to share with Gwennie. Lovely view, very comfy king-sized bed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my God, when is it going to end?<\/p>\n<p>Honey, it ends whenever you&#8217;re ready to give up your baby, to give that precious little boy back to his real mother.<\/p>\n<p>[groans]<\/p>\n<p>[door opens] Where am I?<\/p>\n<p>[footsteps approaching]<\/p>\n<p>[eerie music] Who&#8217;s there? Answer me!<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music] You.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina, I understand you wanting to get on with your life. But before I can prescribe any prescription, I need to have an accurate diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>And how long will that take?<\/p>\n<p>Mama, please just let Kayla explain.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay. Go on, Kayla.<\/p>\n<p>Well, first off, for today&#8217;s test, the doctor will numb the area, take a small tissue sample. The procedure only takes a couple of moments, and it&#8217;s usually tolerated very well. In the meantime, though, I did get the lab results back from the test that you took at Christmas Eve. And as I suspected, your thyroid hormone level is low and there are some anti-thyroid antibodies in your blood.<\/p>\n<p>And what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means that your body is causing your thyroid gland to not work as efficiently as it should. And as I told you before, it&#8217;s a very common condition, especially for women over 50.<\/p>\n<p>And, um, is that what&#8217;s caused this, uh, lump in my neck?<\/p>\n<p>Possibly, yes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if that&#8217;s the case, and it&#8217;s not cancer, why do I need a biopsy?<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles softly] When I found out I was pregnant with the baby I lost, I mean, it was, you know, such a surprise. You know, I was in a relationship with EJ, and I hadn&#8217;t used birth control in years, so I just thought I could never get pregnant. Well, turns out it wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles softly]<\/p>\n<p>But you were happy about the pregnancy?<\/p>\n<p>No, no, not&#8211;not&#8211; not in the beginning. I was too scared to be happy. I was scared I was gonna have another stillbirth and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music] You know, I&#8217;ve never told anyone this up until now. But I even considered having an abortion, but only for a brief moment, because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Because?<\/p>\n<p>Because you know that Eric and I got together when we were high on those tainted biscuits. And until I knew for sure from the DNA test, I thought there was a chance that he could be the father too. I don&#8217;t know. I&#8211;so I put all my fears aside, and I continued with the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I understand.<\/p>\n<p>With everything that Eric has been through, knowing how much he&#8217;s wanted to be a father, I was not going to deprive him of that.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see. The list, the list which I will email you once I get back to my suite&#8211; I would like three or four round trip flights, maybe five, depending on how busy I am. First class, of course, to New York for my Zabar&#8217;s bagels and Katz&#8217;s pastrami.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve heard enough. This is&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Ooh, and I&#8217;m planning on learning the piano, so I&#8217;m going to need a Yamaha Genos -key digital workstation, which retails for about $,. I&#8217;ve done the research.<\/p>\n<p>Damn it, Leo, I have no savings. I am still trying to pay off my law school loans. Do you really think I&#8217;d be living in a studio apartment in a crappy neighborhood if I was as wealthy as you seem to think that I am?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Well, now I&#8217;m concerned about you, if you&#8217;re as destitute as you claim to be. But if you&#8217;re so hard up for cash, why not give the baby back to his filthy rich real parents?<\/p>\n<p>Eric and I are his real parents.<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] Oh, okay. Well, then I guess you&#8217;ll have to get a smaller rental apartment in a crappier neighborhood so you can afford to support me in the manner to which I plan on becoming accustomed. Sorry, Toots, them&#8217;s the breaks.<\/p>\n<p>You remember me?<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh. What do you want?<\/p>\n<p>You were supposed to leave Salem weeks ago, as I recall. And I also recall telling you to stay the hell away from Maggie. But here you are, still lurking around, trying to worm your way back into her life.<\/p>\n<p>That is not true. And not that you require an explanation, but I had every intention of leaving, going back to Greece, flying back on Christmas night. But as you can see, I am in no shape to travel in this condition.<\/p>\n<p>Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you can sneer all you want, Mr. Johnson. But even you, with your one eye, can see that my ankle is bandaged and very swollen.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Ow! Not that I owe you any defense or explanation, but you owe me one! Why are you doing this? Why are you harassing me, subjecting me to such humiliation? What the hell did I do? What do you want?<\/p>\n<p>Paulina, I understand your skepticism about the biopsy, given the likelihood that you probably have Hashimoto&#8217;s thyroiditis that can easily be treated with meds. But there is a possibility that thyroid cancer cells could coexist with this condition, and I&#8217;d like to rule that out before we make a diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, yeah, that makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not to me, because I would know if I had cancer, Kayla. I would have symptoms, and I don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m just&#8211;all I am is tired because I don&#8217;t get enough sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, Mama, and that may be true. But will you just do the test for me, please? And wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to just have a peace of mind and know exactly 100% what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Hmm?<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] All right, fine, I&#8217;ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Mama. She&#8217;ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, then I will get that biopsy scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, please. I need to get out of here and get on with my life.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, you said that already, Mama.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, it bears repeating. Oh, I do not have time to be sick.<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] So you plan to bankrupt me, huh? That&#8217;s your big&#8211;big plan?<\/p>\n<p>No, my plan is for Leo Stark to finally live a charmed life. And not that I have any interest in settling your jangled nerves, but just so you know, I will soon be doing my part to supplement my income from the Peterson endowment.<\/p>\n<p>What are you talking about, your part?<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to&#8211; drum roll, please&#8211; go back to &#8220;The Spectator,&#8221; get my old job back, resume my Lady Whistleblower column. That way, I will a steady stream of income and a huge audience if ever there is a huge secret that needs to be blown sky high, which there will be. There always is. Anyway, I hear that Saxton is having a huge post-Christmas blowout sale, so I&#8217;ve got to get going. Hey, do this. Do this to your cheeks real quick. You might want to get a little color into them before your hubby gets back. You are looking positively cadaverous right now, pale as a sheet. Huh.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, are you saying that the reason you decided not to terminate the pregnancy was because you didn&#8217;t want to deprive&#8211; you didn&#8217;t want to potentially deprive Eric of being a father?<\/p>\n<p>That was the main reason.<\/p>\n<p>But not the only reason?<\/p>\n<p>[somber music]<\/p>\n<p>No. Marlena, I&#8211;I love EJ. I do. But Eric, oh&#8230; I still care about him. And I miss him. And if I&#8217;m being honest with you and with myself&#8230; In my heart&#8230; I wanted that baby I lost to be Eric&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing]<\/p>\n<p>What I want is for you to leave Salem.<\/p>\n<p>How is it your business where I go and what I do?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you how it&#8217;s my business. I care about Maggie. She&#8217;s family to me, and I won&#8217;t let you use her or lie to her anymore.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music] You are gonna leave the country, and I never want to see you near Maggie Kiriakis again. You hear me?<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs]<\/p>\n<p>Do you hear me?<\/p>\n<p>I will not leave the country, and you can go to hell!<\/p>\n<p>[soft music]<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Chanel.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Price.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, happy new year, Johnny. What brings you here?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I thought you guys might like a little home baking after a long day of waiting in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Johnny. That&#8217;s very sweet of you.<\/p>\n<p>Very thoughtful of you. Oh, Johnny&#8211; but you know, I think I will wait until after my biopsy to indulge.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re having a biopsy?<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm, and she is not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Only because I think it&#8217;s not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Johnny, with your permission, is it okay if we share your experience?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you mean what we talked about the other day? Yes, it&#8217;s totally fine.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Mama, Johnny is a cancer survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, when I was a kid, I had retinoblastoma in my left eye.<\/p>\n<p>And they had to remove it to save his life.<\/p>\n<p>So this one is a prosthetic.<\/p>\n<p>What? I would never know. Oh, but you have beautiful eyes, Johnny, both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Well, thank you very much. But yeah, it was a&#8211; it was a tough time, especially for my parents &#8217;cause I was honestly kind of too young to even understand what was going on. But what I do know is that having the cancer detected really early is what saved my life. So I&#8217;m very grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m sure you are. But uh, I still don&#8217;t understand what all this has to do with me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Mama, we all know that early detection of cancer is what makes it curable. And Johnny is a great example of someone who is perfectly healthy because they were able to treat the cancer before it spread.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, thank God it was treated early and now Johnny is healthy and cancer-free. But as for me, well, even though I agreed to this biopsy, I just know that these test results are gonna show that this lump in my neck is not serious at all, and certainly not cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, and I too am optimistic that it isn&#8217;t cancer. But Mama, because you are important to me and to a whole lot of people, I think it&#8217;s best to be % sure, okay? Because we want you around for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>And I promise you, I will be. Paulina Price will not go gently into that good night.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Ooh, ooh, that you can be sure of, okay?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if EJ heard me say that&#8211; if&#8211;if he knew I wanted the baby to be Eric&#8217;s&#8211; I mean, just saying it out loud to you and admitting it to myself is&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] Oh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tell me how you felt when you found out that the baby wasn&#8217;t Eric&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Well, if I&#8217;m being honest&#8211; and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m supposed to be here, right? I&#8217;m supposed to be honest with my feelings?<\/p>\n<p>That is the only way this process works.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music]<\/p>\n<p>Then the truth is, I was disappointed that the baby wasn&#8217;t Eric&#8217;s, because I guess a part of me just thought it would have been a sign.<\/p>\n<p>A sign?<\/p>\n<p>A sign that we were meant to be together.<\/p>\n<p>So if you had been given a sign, does that mean that you would have left EJ?<\/p>\n<p>I, uh&#8230; well&#8230; oh, my God. Oh, my God. I&#8217;m supposed to say, &#8220;Of course not, definitely not.&#8221; But I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[groans]<\/p>\n<p>But you can&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>No, I can&#8217;t, because I&#8211; I don&#8217;t know&#8211; because maybe I&#8217;m not sure. Oh, my God, this is ridiculous. What am I doing? This was a while ago. And things have changed, and Eric is married to Sloan, and they have a child. And EJ and I are building a life together. And&#8211;and you should have seen how excited EJ was to get the DNA results, knowing now that&#8211; that he is the baby&#8217;s father. And he was looking so forward to raising this child with me. And that&#8211;that is when I stopped being disappointed and I started to&#8211; to focus on being a loving partner to EJ and to having a healthy baby and to listening to my doctor and taking all the precautions. And then I&#8211; I had my&#8211;my beautiful little miracle. And if it wasn&#8217;t&#8211; if it wasn&#8217;t for that car accident, my&#8211; my baby would be alive. EJ&#8217;s and my little boy would be alive.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing]<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here you are.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am, with some healthy treats.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh.<\/p>\n<p>And I got you the granola bars you like.<\/p>\n<p>[gasps] Oh, yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, your credit card was declined.<\/p>\n<p>Was it?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but it&#8217;s not a big deal because the cashier was kind enough to let me take the granola bars without paying for them. But I said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow with the $ that I owe you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh. Well, that&#8217;s weird. I don&#8217;t know why it would be declined. Maybe I missed a payment or something. I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I must say, I am a huge proponent of retail therapy. I mean, who needs antidepressants when you can achieve the same goal spending a few K on a leather jacket, a Louis Vuitton backpack, and a couple of cashmere sweaters? Oh, my spirits are soaring.<\/p>\n<p>Who the hell do you think you are? You can&#8217;t force me out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s where you&#8217;re wrong. You see, because my friend and I have connections with the ISA. And we can definitely make that happen, and we will, so let&#8217;s move.<\/p>\n<p>[groans]<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[groans]<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>One week, that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>And then you&#8217;re out of Maggie&#8217;s life, and Salem, for good.<\/p>\n<p>[groaning]<\/p>\n<p>[panting]<\/p>\n<p>Did your, uh, mom head off to get her biopsy?<\/p>\n<p>She did. Um, Johnny, thank you for letting me share your experience. I think it gave her perspective, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Good, I, uh&#8211; I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t wait to get these results back so that we can get on with the rest of our day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, what did you have in mind for New Year&#8217;s Eve tonight? Did you want to do anything? I hear the Bistro is supposed to be having a super sweet party.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, I think that, given everything that&#8217;s happened with Mama today, it&#8217;s best that we play it by ear for our evening plans.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s fine by me. Hey, we could, um&#8211; we could just stay in, watch &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life,&#8221; since we didn&#8217;t get to the other day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like that, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we could do a little wine, a little cuddling.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that sounds perfect. And Johnny, thank you for being here with me today.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nowhere else that I would rather be, okay? And Chanel, no matter what they find, your mom is a fighter, okay? She&#8217;s gonna be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, she better be, because I cannot imagine my life without her.<\/p>\n<p>Come here.<\/p>\n<p>[soft music]<\/p>\n<p>[sniffles] I&#8217;m sorry. Uh, you know, EJ and I have grown closer since the loss of the baby. I mean, he&#8217;s&#8211;he&#8217;s been so understanding and kind. And even when I&#8211; when I stole Eric and Sloan&#8217;s baby from the square and brought him home, he&#8211; he didn&#8217;t judge me. I mean, he urged me to do the right thing. And even Eric understood, and Sloan, not so much. But Eric found it in his heart to forgive me, and I&#8217;m grateful for that.<\/p>\n<p>And have you found a way in your heart to forgive yourself?<\/p>\n<p>[soft music]<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] Yeah, I have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad. Nicole, what do you see next for yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Well, uh, I know that not only am I blessed with a loving husband, but I have a&#8211;a wonderful daughter. And she&#8217;s so kind and smart, my precious Holly.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] And I know she&#8217;s had some&#8211; some difficulties in her childhood. She lost her father, and she moved around a lot. And now she&#8217;s grieving the loss of her little brother too and&#8211; and dealing with her mother&#8217;s sadness. But I want to focus on her, and I want to give her some stability.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing] And she&#8217;s&#8211; oh&#8230; I know soon that she&#8217;s gonna be moving out and living on her own. And I just&#8211; I just want to spend this time with her because Holly is my joy. She&#8217;s my joy. That&#8217;s what I want.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been, uh, doing some thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s all good thoughts. It&#8217;s&#8211;although it&#8217;s related to not so positive realizations.<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm. And that is?<\/p>\n<p>That is raising a kid is&#8211; it&#8217;s expensive. You know, with schools and lessons and saving up for college.<\/p>\n<p>All right, baby, what are you getting at here? I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time for me to make a career change, you know, setting up my photography full time.<\/p>\n<p>Eric, you know I&#8217;ve always believed in your talent. Remember when we first started dating, and I was pushing you to get back into it, and we even went and looked at studios together?<\/p>\n<p>We did. I just think now is the perfect time.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely. I mean, we have grandparents to watch Jude when you and I both work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my God, they&#8217;d be so thrilled. And you know, owning my own business, it would allow me to have more flexible hours.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, honey, no, we&#8217;re gonna work all of that out together, though, as a family.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] And now I must drop all these off in my suite so I can move on to round two of my shopping spree. Or is it round three? Oh, is that Johnny DiMera I see in all his youthful glory? It is.<\/p>\n<p>Not now, Leo.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, come on, don&#8217;t be a party pooper. Listen, do you happen to have any juicy stories you care to share?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, no. And even if I did, I sure as hell wouldn&#8217;t share them with you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, then how about sharing an evening with me?<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s last minute, but it&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve. Do you have any plans, you cute thing?<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, I hope this session was helpful for you.<\/p>\n<p>[soft music]<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was. And Marlena, I would like to continue seeing you if you could fit me in your schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad. And there will always be time in my schedule for you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. You know, talking about my feelings, I feel very hopeful that, uh&#8230; That I&#8217;m actually optimistic about my recovery and about the new year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never felt so happy. I mean, I&#8217;ve always wanted to be a father, and it&#8217;s just now that it&#8217;s happened, it&#8217;s exceeded my expectations.<\/p>\n<p>I feel the same way. I love you and our son so much, I&#8211; and I know that our love is just gonna continue to be deeper and stronger. Nothing&#8217;s ever gonna tear us apart.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Okay, wait. Let me get this straight. You can&#8217;t possibly be asking me out on a date, can you, for New Year&#8217;s Eve?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t I? I&#8217;m single. You&#8217;re single. Your twin sister&#8217;s bi, which means there&#8217;s a very good chance you are too.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m not bi. And even if I were bi or gay, you are the last person that I would want to go out with on New Year&#8217;s Eve, or any other night, for that matter. So what I recommend you do, Leo, is get on a dating site. I don&#8217;t know. ObnoxiousTwerps.com might be a good one for you. You can find your date there, because I am spoken for. Happy New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, we&#8217;ll see about that.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to get a rush on the biopsy results, and they came back suspicious, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re not exactly sure yet, but the pathology report is showing similarities to cancer cells. We&#8217;re gonna need to run more tests to know exactly what we&#8217;re dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. I understand. And well, whatever&#8217;s determined, I will deal with it. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, I&#8217;m a warrior.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;ve noticed, and I think anybody who knows you knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Right. Also, I have so much support and love in my life. And I know&#8211;I know I&#8217;ll get through this, whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you will, Mama. Of course you will.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[panting] Those eyes. I know those eyes. 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