Soap Opera Digest: The Story of a Woman. A Dream. And An Endless Love

The soap opera has become her real-life love story.

Julia Melrose is a stereotypical soapaholic. And I don't mean she is addicted to the foamy, liquid kind. Julia spends her free time watching the rich, beautiful, carefree people who come to her through the television. Yet, Julia didn't start out as a soapaholic. She, like many people facing life-altering experiences, got lost.

Let's go back twenty-five years to the fabulous eighties. Julia is young and in love-the kind of love others dream a...