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It’s A Couples Thing… We’re all suckers for romance on Valentine’s Day. Love letters, hearts and flowers.
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At this time of year we’re all suckers for romance. This Valentine’s Day, which arrives with all probability on the eve of war, those of us who love soaps will be looking to the allure of the fantasy, the interplay of relationships and pull of emotion even more. When Cupid takes to PORT CHARLES love can’t be far behind and from the moment he gets you with one of his arrows, reducing you to a quivering, panting, heart pounding mess as your favorite couples celebrate Valentine’s Day in their own unique manner, thoughts of grim reality intruding on all the bliss will be reduced to a soft focus image, at least for those 30 minutes. There hasn’t exactly been much build up to romance this week in PORT CHARLES, everyone is too busy caught up in the evil, deception, suspicion and lies, vampire urges, and schemes of revenge that permeates even their lovemaking. Still, at the heart of it all, what drives every single character, with the exception perhaps of Joshua, is the need for and search for love. Can’t get much more Valentine’s Day worthy than that, except for, oh yes a week of beautiful love in a barn. Alas, as they say, you can’t go backwards, but you can be intrigued by how certain twosomes can be so charismatic together, how they dramatize each other, how special that blossoming of two characters when the right A comes together with the right B. PORT CHARLES has always been especially good at picking one from column A, one from column B and actually making the right choice more often than naught. At the risk of resorting to shopworn metaphors, the name of the game is and always has been “chemisty”. Rafe and Alison – a triumph of love over space and time to uplift and join their souls. Jack and Livvie – a winsome young twosome that ultimately fell apart due to psychosis and plot progression. Caleb and Livvie – charismatic, sensual, passionate but unlike Rafe and Alison, theirs is a love that traveled over space and time to haunt their souls. Jack and Tess – an innocent fantasy in Jack’s mind that will get him back to Livvie. Lucy and Kevin – a long standing love that survived a soap change and writer changes but couldn’t survive the characters’ basic incompatibilities. Lucy and Ian – old world sentimentality meets new age sensibility, kindred spirits driven by need and sacrifice. Casey and Ricky – a stab at recreating the angel loves mortal dynamic perhaps but no denying their attraction. Even Victor and Mary – timeless and proved chemistry is chemistry, at any age. How Do I Love Thee….Let Me Count the Ways…..
Alison Why do I love you so much? Because you can spend 4 days in a barn with no facilities and look as fresh and dewy as if you spent 4 days at the Ritz Carlton. Because your laughter and openness to the invitation of the world, even if it’s a world you didn’t anticipate or understand, keeps me believing all things are possible. Because it wasn’t love at first sight. We were poking and dancing around it. We sensed something buried in the snow and waited for the beautiful, warm thaw. Because you gave in and let the feelings take over even if you weren’t sure you wanted to and never looked back or gave up. Because you looked so damn beautiful with jelly smeared on your face. Because the first time we made love was an unexpected gift from heaven and changed me forever. Because you let me die with a dignity and maturity and quietness of heart that gave me peace and comfort. Because your faith in my love, while undeniable, still wouldn’t let you believe the truth until you could disprove any nagging questions. Because you put up with my job, not really happy about the dangers of being a slayer, but understanding that is who I am and that is who I must be. Because at the end of the day, we have joy, desire, faith. Because we fight just enough to know what its like. Because at night, with your arms wrapped around me I know I’m safe in your love. But most of all I love waking up beside you. I roll over and sure enough you’re right there, bright, shining eyes looking into mine, reminding me that my journey with you through this world and the next is exactly where I am supposed to be. All my Love, now and forever, Rafe
Olivia, Why do I love you so much? Because you’re my sweet obsession. Because you‘re the neat and tidy explanation for my reappearance in Port Charles and I’m the explanation for your evil ways throughout the last two arcs. Because I will be the catalyst for your redemption as a character. Because I’ve loved you through all eternity and will love you into the hell that is my next eternity. Because deep down our souls are the same, your inherent darkness compliments mine. Olivia we could rule the world together. Just us, as one. Because your passion and wickedness stokes my fires. Because your selfish need to satisfy every desire and the rest of the world be damned is as strong as mine and I didn’t create that. Because no one wears a white wedding dress or white negligee quite like you do. Because we’re the other half of the soul mate coin. But I’m worried Livvie, I’m secretly falling for your alter ego Tess. I don’t want to admit it, to myself or anyone else but the seductiveness of her (your?) pureness and innocence is almost too much to take. Why did I pull her out of you? Why. I need you to come out and show yourself my love, now. Before I fall into the trap of wanting my soul back anymore than I already have. The illusion of living as human is just that. I need you. With desire and love, Caleb
Lucy, Why do I love you so much? Because you taught me life is mix and match, to heck with sense and perfection. Because you love without apologies or explanations. Because your slayer genes may just save me from the worst I’ve become and because it’s so delicious having you save me. Because you have the best abs in PORT CHARLES, even if you do insist on having them constantly on display. Because you can walk in stilettos, know how to put any man in his place in two seconds and can lay a great kiss on me. Because you listen to the universe, still believe it’s the Age of Aquarius and are fully aware of your altered consciousness, even though no one else is. Because you put up with my maudlin, Irish blarney, especially after one whiskey too many, and never let me wallow in my self pity. Because your enthusiasm and zest to live life to its fullest is infectious and impossible not to love. Because trying to make things better for anyone in trouble gets you in hot water more times than I can count but it always, always comes from that place in your heart that can’t stand to see injustice or suffering of any kind. Because you never stop talking – or listening either. Because life with you is always an adventure. Because you have no impulse control and I’m swept along on the thrill ride those impulses take us. Because you understand me like no one has before and I understand you like no one has before. Because we need each other and you were smart enough to make me see it. But most of all I love you for your fierce protectiveness and concern for those you love, for never giving up on any situation unless you absolutely have come to the end of the road, for your willingness to always see the good in people no matter how much they’ve hurt you, and because, as a bit o’ luck would have it, you love me.
Happy Valentine’s Day. Ian
Love strengthens us as individuals, as families, as communities. On this Valentine’s Day it is this strength that we should embrace and welcome and keep with us always. PORT CHARLES, in its unconventional and unique way, does exactly that. It would be foolish not to honor and celebrate every moment of every day, the love, in all its forms, in our lives. And don’t forget the chocolate.
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