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 It
is through Celeste DiNapoli that Greta MacAdams meets for the first time
Michael Donnelly. Kind and discreet, Greta is a former nun who left the
convent to become a nurse, at the Santa Barbara hospital. Very fast, she
falls under Michael's charm, but realizes that her feelings are not
mutual.
Laura
Asher, who sees in Greta a rival in Michael's heart, then pushes her in
Mack Blake's
arms, recently arrived in town. Even if both have little in common,
Greta nearly sleeps with him. She retracts just in time, preferring to
wait that her beloved Michael decides to finally see her as a girlfriend
rather than as a sister (in both senses of the word).
Greta's
natural kindness shows itself when she suggests taking in at her home a
baby whose mother fled the maternity hospital after the delivery. Greta
baptizes the girl Grace and becomes attached to her as if she was hers.
But the mother of the child returns on her early choice to abandon her,
and Greta, full of sadness, is forced to let the baby leave. But this
adventure will have allowed to tighten the links between her and Michael
and to make of them a recognized couple. She then participates with him
in the creation and the animation of the community center which Michael
created in his former chapel.
Greta
disappears suddenly from the screen at the beginning of 1990, without
any reason. The writers having chosen to bring together Michael and
Nikki Alvarez, it seems that Greta had not her place anymore. Michael
will have erased her of his memory, without any farewell or break-up
scene.
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Playing
an ex-nun is an old habit for Santa Barbara's
Elizabeth Maclellan,
1989
