I'll admit it -- back in college, I got hooked on a particular soap opera with a group of friend. You would find a group of about 30 of us getting our daily fix of General Hospital each afternoon -- something particularly amusing because i was at an all male college (the folks buying ads for "feminine protection" and feminine hygiene" products certainly didn't get their money's worth with us).

And so I was sad to catch this story while searching for Super Tuesday news.

Actress Shell Kepler, who for years played the gossipy nurse Amy Vining on the TV soap opera "General Hospital," has died. She was 49.

Kepler died Friday at Oregon Health & Science University hospital, which did not give the cause of death.

Kepler's busybody character on "General Hospital" was a fan favorite and enjoyed a long run, 1979-2002.

In addition to her run on "General Hospital," she was also in a 1982 Joan Collins film, "Homework," and a couple of episodes of the situation comedy "Three's Company."

On the side, she was a businesswoman, marketing clothing on the former Home Shopping Club. She said in a 1994 Associated Press interview that her "Lacy Afternoon" collection had sales topping $20 million that year alone.

Yeah, the show was a guilty pleasure from my youth -- and this death is one more sign of my youth passing by.

My condolences to her family and friends.

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