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 Like
her counterpart Dr. Toni Carlin, Sally Taylor is a character
of the shadow, who is used as a link between the wavering Kelly Capwell and
the stubborn Joe Perkins. These two women will not be too much of two to try
to bring closer these two hearts that everything seems to oppose today.
Sally Taylor is a character made of episodical appearances, without
real depth, who, obviously, will disappear with the reunion of Kelly and
Joe.
At
her first appearance, Sally comes to ensure her former college friend of her
support. They indeed knew each other all
three with Kelly at
Lyman prep. At first, she proposes a job to him : to be
a washer-up at Georgio's diner, where she works. Thereafter, she will announce to him that
her boss cannot offer the job to him,
because of his prison past (In the shadow, it is Augusta Lockridge who
intrigues so that Joe does not find any job in Santa Barbara). As a
faithful friend, Sally nevertheless gives one week of salary to him.
In
order to celebrate their reunion, Sally invites Joe at the restaurant.
There, she tries to seduce Joe, whom she visibly covets since she is a
teenager. And, while an extremely awkward moment for
Joe, Sally acknowledges to him being a huge fan of Lionel Ritchie, of whom
she has the complete discography. She explains to him, in the most
innocently way of the world, that she likes to listen to him very loudly
in a bath with foam... and Sally ends up inviting the poor Joe to
"swim" with her. Politely, Joe declines her invitation,
certifying to her (and also to us) of his whole fidelity towards Kelly
Capwell, which does not prevent them from remaining very good friends.
At
her new appearance, Sally Taylor, then waitress in La Mesa, crosses the
road of her former friend Kelly Capwell, who get reunited with Joe
Perkins. Sally proposes to Kelly to become her roommate (because she left the Capwell
mansion), and she moreover offers to her a job of
waitress in the restaurant. After Joe, Sally flies to the help of Kelly.
Whereas she tries to protect the relation of Kelly and Joe who moved in
her appartment, Sally inopportunely leads the police to her apartment, and thus to Joe. This last
one has no other choice than to run away
and to disappear in the ocean... With this new tragedy, Sally
supports of all her soul Kelly, who overwhelms herself of reproaches.
Honesty seems to be the
motor of Sally's choices : without another
explanation that Joe's resurrection, which fills her of joy, Sally
agrees to lend her apartment to the couple, which has no other nest to hide their love. However, before leaving, Sally is
obliged to lie to Augusta Lockridge who questions her on the men's
clothes - clothes which belongs of course to Joe - strewn everywhere in
her apartment. Sally justifies herself by pretexting the visit of her little
brother. Then, it is the very same day of her departure that she informs Joe
of the kidnapping of Kelly by Ginger Jones. As a proof of her honesty,
Sally refuses to spy the conversation between Minx Lockridge and
Brick Wallace for Lionel's account.
Sally will
come back only briefly, a last time, at the occasion of Kelly and of Joe's
wedding. Loyal,
faithful, discrete, Sally carries in her all the noble values of
friendship. She is very entirely at the side of her friends, getting
cheerful only through them. After Toni Carlin, the reunion of the cursed
lovers will involve
the departure of Sally, who will leave Santa Barbara also discreetly
that she crossed it.
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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