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I am a General Hospital fan. I am eagerly anticipating Jasam's upcoming storyline. I'm also a fan of Sami (OTP: Lumi ~~and the highly undershipped Sami/Nicole~~) from Days of Our Lives.

My family has been soap opera fans for generations.

So, imagine my upset at learning today that ABC has canceled two soap operas and would like to get rid of GH - the last soap standing (on ABC).

Behold my younger sister's eloquent plea to save the dying soap genre below.

PLEASE watch GH on Hulu, work to get #SaveSoaps trending on twitter, and reblog this on tumblr:

After hearing the devastating news that both One Life to Live and All My Children have been canceled, I am here to beg for support. I know soap operas often get the bad reputation of being so corny and overly dramatic that only bored housewives watch, but I am here to tell you that assumption is wrong. I am a fourth generation, twenty-two year old, college educated viewer and I have watched these shows for most of my life.

General Hospital, which began in 1963, is now the only ABC soap opera left. I won’t lie and tell you it hasn’t had evil twins and long lost loves return from the grave, because it has, but it also has had famous guest stars from Elizabeth Taylor to James Franco, groundbreaking stories about AIDS and organ donation, and more fans than you could possibly imagine. Doctors, lawyers, students, teachers, men, women, children, and adults - all walks of life have loved these shows, because unlike any other program out there, these are characters you can literally grow up with. You can see families grow as you grow your own and your children can watch theirs grow through each generation. It is something that is truly unique about soaps and something that will likely never happen again once the last show is canceled.

So please write, email, call to save the soap genre, not just for fans but for the thousands of American people (in hair and make-up, lighting, set design, writing, props, camera-work, and so much more) that will lose their jobs because they chose to work the hardest of any show in order to produce five days a week of television.

ABC Daytime Feedback Line (NY): 212-456-7777

Anne Sweeney
Co-chairman of Disney Media Networks
Anne.X.Sweeney@disney.com

Brian Frons - Brian.Frons@email.disney.com
Brian Frons - Brian.Frons@abc.com

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818-460-7700 - Anne Sweeney