I was a bit of a mama’s boy growing up, which means I often watched television with my mom. That means I watched daytime TV. And that means I watched ‘70s soaps. My mother was an ABC devotee; “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” were usually on the agenda.

Anthony Geary, an eight-time Daytime Emmy winner who portrayed one-half of General Hospital‘s iconic soap opera supercouple Luke and Laura, died Sunday in the Netherlands following an operation three days earlier.