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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Guiding Light Fades To Black

John Barry: ST. PETERSBURG — Minutes before Guiding Light — Charlotte Weintraub's soap opera addiction for 57 years — she shows a photo of herself in a vegetable garden with two men. Charlotte is in the middle. On one side is Harold. On the other is Dr. John.

She smiles at the photo. She recently invited one of them to her room. She drew close, her blue eyes flashing, and asked if he wanted to see her plant.

Whom did she ask?

Harold?

Or Dr. John?

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