1975 (#21) - Jennifer’s confession, the painful break up whit Mark and Lorie’s book

Lorie confesses that she is happy and has finally found love; Jennifer is happy for her daughter and would like one day to meet the boy. Meanwhile, it is Lorie herself who asks Mark to spend some time in the hospital with her mother, who is worried about her health. However, Mark could not have imagined that night would change his life. In fact, when Mark confesses to Jennifer that he is the boy Lorie told her about, a shocked Jennifer asks Mark to break off the relationship with the girl, breathing a sigh of relief when an embarrassed Mark admits that he has not yet been able to make love to her. At the boy's request for explanations, Jennifer then replies that Lorie is not Stuart's daughter as everyone believes, but Bruce's daughter. Lorie and Mark, therefore, are brother and sister. Lorie is disappointed when Mark refuses her marriage proposal; however, the girl is devastated, at least, when Mark confesses that he can no longer be with her and that he wants to leave Genoa City to forget her. Lorie's anger, incredulous at Mark's words, leaves the boy helpless, even though he knows he is doing the right thing by keeping her fatherhood a secret. Lorie, thus, finds herself again alone and heartbroken for the umpteenth time. The pain of the girl, this time focuses on what Lorie says is the real and only cause of her misfortunes: Leslie. Lorie, therefore, dedicates herself to the writing of her novel, entitled "In the shadow of my sister", with a very autobiographical air in which Leslie was described as the trigger of her problems, including details of her private life very reserved. The publication of the book hurts Leslie very much and made Stuart literally furious, who reproaches Lorie harshly. Brad, worried about a possible new nervous breakdown of his wife, decides to confront his past with her by going to New York to the hospital where she was admitted. Thanks to Brad's support, Leslie is completely able to overcome her trauma and become even more attached to the man, to whom she is eternally grateful to be the only one able to fully understand her.