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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 240803" data-attributes="member: 27">I wouldn't say they mined that conflict very often, choosing instead to have stories where young A-M was generally rebellious against his father since it was well known that Alan had treated Hope shabbily, and since A-M had been raised by Hope someplace else (I'm thinking New York, but I could be wrong). He seemed to have that same teenaged rebellion that they write so often, and appealing to his Uncle Ed was more an effort to play one relative off the other to get what he wanted.  Hope was another character born on the show.  When Mike spent that period of time in Bay City, Hope was there with him (as a little girl).  They chose to write Hope (and A-M) out of the show in 1983 or 1984.  She may have made a guest appearance at some point, but I'm pretty sure they never showed her again.  There were other uncomfortable ties between the Bauers and Spauldings, in true soap opera tradition.  Roger Thorpe, originally brought in as a Spaulding Enterprises employee, became a sometimes-ally of Alan's as Roger and Ed became mortal enemies.  In the wake of Roger raping Holly and Christina (Blake) being born, Ed and Holly became a couple and Roger became obsessed with getting baby Christina away from them, and blackmailing Alan into helping him continue to evade capture.  When Roger "died" by falling from a cliff in Santo Domingo, it was Ed who was holding onto Roger's hands before Roger fell to his "death".  Ed and Holly resented Alan for helping Roger get away with so many of his crimes.  This is why, when "Christina" (Blake) returned to town, she treated Ed as something of a father-figure, since he and Holly had been together for a period of time when she was little.</blockquote>

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