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Seven Memorable Soap Thanksgivings

By Mara Levinsky
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Kim Matula, Darin Brooks, Jacob Young, Linsey Godfrey, Karla Mosley, Lawrence Saint Victor, Scott Clifton, Kristolyn Lloyd, John McCook, Rena Sofer, Ashlyn Pearce, Winsor Harmon, Katherine Kelly Lang, Heather Tom, Jennifer Gareis, Alley Mills, Dick Christie
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As the soaps celebrate another Turkey Day, Digest looks back at some daytime Thanksgivings of yore.

  1. ALL MY CHILDREN, 1989

    Michael E Knight, Jill Larson, Mary Fickett, Ray MacDonnell
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    Joe (Ray MacDonnell, near l.) and Ruth (Mary Fickett, near l.) were caught off-guard when Tad’s (Michael E. Knight) birth mother, Opal (Jill Larson) crashed their meal.

  2. ONE LIFE TO LIVE, 1996

    Kamar de los Reyes – Patricia Mauceri
    Ann Limongello/ABC
    Carlotta (Patricia Mauceri, near l.) served free meals to the Angel Square community.

  3. GENERAL HOSPITAL, 1996

    Quartermaine Thanksgiving 1996
    Cathy Blaivas/ABC
    (From l.) Justus (Joseph C. Phillips), Keesha (Senait Ashenafi), A.J. (Sean Kanan), Emily (Amber Tamblyn), Monica (Leslie Charleson), Alan (Stuart Damon), Lila (Anna Lee), Edward (John Ingle) and Ned (Wally Kurth) gathered for the holiday ... and, of course, wound up eating pizza.

  4. THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, 2007

    Bryton McClure, Crystel Khalil
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    Devon (Bryton James) and Lily (Christel Khalil) were on kitchen duty as the Winters family spent their first Thanksgiving without presumed-dead Drucilla.

  5. AS THE WORLD TURNS, 2009

    Jon Hensley, Michael Park, Kathleen Widdoes
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    Holden (Jon Hensley, near l.) gave Emma (Kathleen Widdoes) the tool to cut the hubbard squash for the final time on the show's last Thanksgiving episode.

  6. THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, 2013

    Kim Matula, Darin Brooks, Jacob Young, Linsey Godfrey, Karla Mosley, Lawrence Saint Victor, Scott Clifton, Kristolyn Lloyd, John McCook, Rena Sofer, Ashlyn Pearce, Winsor Harmon, Katherine Kelly Lang, Heather Tom, Jennifer Gareis, Alley Mills, Dick Christie
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    As the Forresters and their friends gathered for Thanksgiving for the first time since Stephanie's passing, Hope (then-Kim Matula) began a new tradition, asking the guests to share what they were grateful for about one another.

  7. DAYS OF OUR LIVES, 2015

    Mary Beth Evans, Kristian Alfonso, Stephen Nichols
    JJohnson/jpistudios.com
    The Bradys and their friends converged at the pub following Bo's "death", and left a chair empty for him.
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