Will you offer a farewell toast to guiding light? & how long you watched etc...?

Here's to GL, may the Light always shine for us!! Many many toasts to this beloved Soap. I enjoyed the last show, but at the end when it said "The End" it hit me like a bomb. I never thought I would feel that hurt. The end of 55 years of me watching this show. I watched at first with my Grandmother, and then with my daughter, all through her illness with AIDs. It kept her mind off her own suffering, and something like that is priceless. And then it was with her daughter, my Granddaughter. I remember being at School and running home to watch The Guiding Light, and then at work, to watch Guiding Light. And always thinking , will Josh walk again? Will Reva stay married to Josh's Father? Vanessa with Matt on an Island. Roger d Holly, brutal and yet heart pumping. We saw it all, Clones, another Reva? help us all LOL. But then the show started going downhill. Even the fanclub got different with the Mindi, whoever the otherones' name. These ladies had no feelings, and the Journals got weak, with asking the same questions to all the actors. I also have many Autographed photos, but so what? It is the images in our minds and hearts that truly matter. It was the watching 5 days a week that mattered. But it didn't matter to the writers or Wheeler, gee even her name leaves a bad taste in the mouth. We tried, letters by snail-mail, Emails and this so-called Producer just shrugged us off. On 60 minutes, she sat and cried, for who? Certainly not the show that her and her pet writers destroyed. Beth Ehlers was a big part of GL, they ruined her character and then her and "Gus" were gone. And that was a whole in the show's structure. I'm sorry fellow Soapers, but Grady, with his receding hairline was in need of a bath, and acting lessons. And Daisy/Susan kept on seeing him knowing he ran down her cousin Tammy. They tried messing with our minds and treating us like really dumb children. But the H*ll with them. The show is ended. But the Light will be forever in our minds, and in our Hearts. I know, I have said this all over this board, and I will think it till the end of my life. I am not obsessed with this Soap but do know many who are and the tears will keep falling for a very long time. But we here will be Stronger than that, and we will fondly remember the show, that made so many people laugh, and cry for all those years. And whether you watched for 60 years or one year, the Light has touched you in one way or another. To you my friends, keep the Light burning forever in your hearts.