Today i am only 14, which means i missed out on most of the greatness of the show. I started watching with my mom when i was about 11. I only watched for about 2 or 3 years before it ended. I wish i saw more but what i did was amazing. Tom Pelphrey was spectacular with his portrayal of Jonathon. The incredibly romantic pairing was my favorite aspect of the soap. John Driscoll's "Coop" was the sweettest to van zandts not so typical soap star, Ashlee. They made the cutest couple. Jonathon and Tammy were another great pairing. The scenes where Jonathon lost Tammy were unbelievably heartwrenching and almost as painful as if she were part of my real life. That is how most of the show was. I was more moved and intrigued by most factors of the show than my own life. Following the drama and evil of Alan Spaulding has been irreplacable. No other character could display the same horrific personality as well as Ron Raines did on Guiding Light. I hated everything he did yet somehow I absolutely loved to watch him. It was a huge shock when he died just before the end of the series, but the scene on the beach where his family remembered him was Reva was just great. I could talk for hours. Otalia was such an unexpected pairing. The two were not even friends but over the course of the story they became romantically involved. Crystall Chapell and Jessica Leccia did beautiful jobs with the storyline. Overall, Guiding Light was a stupendous, dramatic, shocking, funny, romantic, horrific, and loveable soap opera that will forever live on in my heart as a memory of my childhood and a show that taught about endless love, families that stick together and friends who always make up and help each other. Guiding Light will forever be a part of me.