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 than Stephanie OR Melanie.  Frankly, I’m convinced these writers don’t know how to write a story now without using children in their plots.  It’s most discouraging, since no child deserves to be used.  They all claim nothing means more to them than their children….their family….yet they continue to destroy the very lives they created on practically a daily basis.  Hate her if you must, but I would love to see Sami and Rafe have a child of their own one day, but not at this time.  They need to be completely free of E.J. before they start planning (yes, I said PLANNING) a child of their own.  Then that should be the end of Sami’s ability to procreate.  

get pregnant, but Chloe had like a 2% chance – or maybe vice-versa.

 her and Sami made up, and both seemed genuinely happy to do so.  Of course, Carrie may have had a twinge of guilt because of Anna’s part in the Sydnapping.  She even apologized to Sami for her mom’s part, even though she (Carrie) had nothing to do with it.  I hope that Carrie will be there for Sami in a way no one else has been able to be.  I’m also hoping that maybe, just maybe, Carrie’s return will be a precursor to finding Anna, and this whole mess will end, and yes, it is my fondest wish that Sami’s children are returned to her, with her and E.J. sharing custody, but that Nicole will once again have to give up trying to become Sydney’s mother.  I’m predicting a new triangle, this time between E.J., Nicole and Brady, who lately I seem to have lost all respect for anyway.  It’s way beyond time for both Sami and E.J. to come to the conclusion that their children are better served if both of their parents learn to co-exist as a family, and share the lives of their children, allowing Johnny and Sydney the best of both of their parents, but without the drama of using them as weapons against one another.  I’m thinking that by February sweeps, this drama will finally be settled, one way or another.

I love Frances Fisher, and hope she doesn’t cause more problems for Sami.  Guess that’s a wait and see, but Sami sure could use a "friend" friend and not just constant dependence on Rafe for everything.  No one on this show seems to have a good friend to confide in …. that’s sad to me.  That’s why I always liked it when they made Nicole and Sami frenemies instead of the way they are now.  Talk about two minds thinking alike …. 

 to only respond to Nicole.  She’s been shown several times smiling at Nicole, playing with Nicole …. next she’ll be crying for Nicole not to leave, I suppose.  Everyone else, including Sami and E.J., might as well be invisible.  That’s the problem with child actors who can’t respond to their on-screen family.  She certainly should have been directed to run to Sami, or to give a hug to her dearly demented daddy, but this little one, although cute as a button, gets no cigar for even being close to the first Sydney.  Heck, she doesn’t even respond to Johnny.  I realize they’re trying to give the effect that she is confused and upset over being torn away from her other siblings, but she didn’t respond well to them when they were together either.  

 now he’s determined to make Stefano choose between him and Kate under the guise of Kate betraying him, when in fact he only wants to show Stefano that if he doesn’t "take care" of Kate, he will most likely keep Johnny and Sydney away from their grandfather.  What did E.J. tell Stefano yesterday…. something like he was ‘growing soft’.  Careful, Junior, or you may find yourself on the outside looking in, because idle threats will not sway Stefano and just where would you be without daddy.  You’re number one now, but you will soon have to compete with daddy’s new little shining star …. one which I believe he will, in the end, be most grateful to Kate for divulging his new offspring; not angry at her for it.

 Thank you very much.

 at least she’s finally acknowledging what she has done, through her own bad choices in her life, that her family, especially her children, have suffered from it.  Sami didn’t ask for, nor did she want, Will’s participation in any of this; Will insisted on protecting her, as did Rafe.  They made a conscious decision to keep her shooting E.J. on the down-low, even though she protested to their implicating themselves in her mess.  Now, I’m no huge Sami Brady fan by any means, but I do see a big change in Sami since she met Rafe.  No one will ever convince me that she doesn’t love her children.  I can’t help but hope that when this is all over and done with, if I’m still alive by then, I would like to see E.J. grow up as well, realize that Sami is not now, nor has she ever been, "in love" with him, and realizes that he has done far worse to her over the years than she has to him, including her shooting him.  All 4 of them, which includes Nicole, need to wake up and realize that where Sydney and Johnny are concerned, E.J. is their father and Sami is their mother; they learn to co-parent and co-exist among themselves, and find a way to stop hurting these children with this tug-o-war they put them through every day of their young lives.  It makes me sick to watch this crap they go through day after day after day.  Move on, both of you jerks, before those children you so vehemently try to make me understand that you are ‘only doing what’s best for them’ are the same children who will one day grow to hate you.  At the very least, these writers have to find a way to make me and millions of other fans co-exist with these characters without wishing they were going…going…GONE!

 any hints are dropped by Dee.  I know she’s there to promote her new cookbook, but the rumor is already spreading that they may be bringing them back, even if only for a short while.  You know what that means?  Until they see if all the hype really will boost the ratings.  BELIEVE ME, IT WILL!