And so hi-ho, hi-ho, it was off to the club they go
to find that Gina - in all her fat ass glory - had
the we-never-close club all prepared. The Newman's
private dining room beckoning, the happy couple was
seated at a table as Roma vowed she'd be "standing
by" so as to fulfill their every request. Like they
do so often, the Newman's practically renewed their
wedding vows, and swore that if they could survive
this latest tragedy they could survive anything.
And to show just how much they were willing to be
there for Sharon, Victor and Nikki announced their
departure in the Fall on a three-week love boat
cruise in the Greek Isles. How they could possibly
know Sharon would be fully recovered by then, that
she and her husband would be "back on track" by the
Fall, was indeed another of those mysterious events
Genoa City is so famous for.
Back at the Abbott Hotel the grieving Sharon wasn't
exactly dressed in black. With little covering her
anorexic body Sharon strutted around the pool
causing a bone to sprout in her escort's pants. Yes,
the very married Brad Carlton had gone out of his
way to make the one-hour trip to the Newman
ponderosa and back again just so he could do a
little something to lighten Sharon's heavy load. She
very much enjoyed drowning her sorrows in the drinks
Brad served up going so far as to share a toast to
friendship and pose for photographs.
Also noting Sharon's lack of gloom was Jill Abbott
who thought it "very interesting" along with Michael
Baldwin and Lauren Fenmore who observed, that as a
couple, they'd never been around so many people.
Jill was pleased to see the new Jabot Cosmetics
fashion photographer among the crowd and that he'd
dropped by to take a few "snapshots" which was not
an oddity given today's world of digital
photography.
That Malfunction Winters was there - sans each and
every other member of the Winters clan including the
infamous Dr. Olivia Winters with whom he lived - was
noteworthy because Winters said he too knew that
Sharon and her husband would be back on track soon
at which time he planned to start work at Jabot.
Winters also checked in with private detective
'Clueless' and learned the only work Williams was
doing on The Fugitive case was to check daily for
activity on Daniel Romalotti's credit card. Seeing
none, Williams used his time looking for golden
opportunities to be with the very married Ashley.
Overall, the utmost concern at that year's
celebration of independence, the one thing people
couldn't stop talking about, was how Sharon was
holding up. Several guests found it remarkable that
only a few weeks since her daughter's death Sharon
seemed to be back on track. Brad explained the
phenomena of women quickly forgetting their dead
offspring as one of "being around kids".
Alas, with so many photos of the dead Cassie
seemingly in everyone's pockets, it was inevitable
Sharon would see one and that's all it took to send
her into a bawling jag. Of all the shoulders she
could have cried on Sharon choose Brad's much to the
married man's godless delight.
