Soapy

 I remember a time when Soap Operas were the lifeblood of stay at home housewives or even others, including my mother-in-law who faithfully followed a few of her "stories" as she called them. Not my mother, who would not have turned the tv on in the daytime, not during any  time when you could be outdors.

  But the soaps are still on. I just heard a woman on the Y and the R confide to a friend that her mother had been found, after having been kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned psychiatric facility. Because no one knew why, they were afraid it might happen again.