"Annie's Tribute to Luke and Laura"
Luke and Laura said their heart-wrenching "Good-Byes".
That episode....that beautifully constructed and
written episode....ripped at my heart, tugged at my emotions, and reduced me to weeping buckets of hot, scalding tears.
I've read so many postings on the Message Board about the End of Luke and Laura's Marriage that if I say something here that someone else has said, it is not intentional. It seemed to me that all the postings carried a common thread....that almost everyone was experiencing Luke and Laura's pain and heartache, feeling their anguish and anxiety in those final bittersweet, but precious, moments.
I cannot help but wonder when a marriage ends, how do you divide up the memories?
As Luke said, "You'll take Lulu to Dance Recitals and I'll take her Ice Fishing." The words poured out as he continued, "You'll remember the day Lulu was born, and I'll remember the day Lucky made it all the way across the country at age eleven."
And then, Luke, dwelling on the past fired up with
fury, as he asked Laura, "If everything we've been to each other can be written down on a piece of paper, then why in the hell did we bother in the first place?"
Laura, still looking like the bride on the top of the
Wedding Cake, replied softly, "You know why. We fell in love."
And, then, as the end was near, Laura summed it up best by saying, "For twenty years, we were golden."
And Luke questioned, "What happened to us, darlin'?
When did it forever end?"
I ask that same question. Was it Laura being held
captive? Was it the fact she gave birth
to a Cassadine? Was it the Old Victorian House in
Port Charles? Was it Felicia? Was it Deception?
Or was it, like many marriages, just time itself?
But, the sweetest words that hurt the most, belonged to Luke when he said, "I want you to know, Laura, that when I look at you now, I don't see that eighteen year old girl anymore. I see a woman. She's magnificent." And after pausing for a second, he continued, "I'll always be proud you were my wife."
And then they signed the legal "Mumbo Jumbo" and Laura was gone.
As Luke pressed his face close to the window
panes....as the rain blurred the look in his
eyes....from down on the street below, Laura looked up....half-hidden under her umbrella....and smiled a last tearful "good-bye".
Luke and Laura did not make it to their twentieth
Wedding Anniversary, which traditionally is celebrated by giving the couple a gift of china. So....
.....AS A SPECIAL ANNIE'S APPLES AWARD, I PRESENT ....
A PAIR OF CHERISHED CHINA APPLES
TO
LUKE AND LAURA SPENCER
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