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The Saga of Baby Maddie, 1996-1997
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Maria and Edmund were delighted when
Joe and Ruth Martin's granddaughter, Kelsey, agreed to let them adopt her baby.
But there was more to Kelsey's plan. She was secretly in love with Edmund. After
her baby's birth, Kelsey engineered a scheme to move into Wildwind to nurse baby
Sam, and be close to Edmund. Later, before the adoption became final, Kelsey
demanded that baby Sam be returned to her. Maria was devastated to have the
child she had grown to love torn from her arms. She attempted to run away with
the child, but Edmund stopped her.
Edmund's actions infuriated Maria, who bitterly rejected her husband. In her
grief, Maria turned to her brother-in-law, Dimitri Marick, who was then
separated from Erica. They shared one night of passion -- witnessed by Skye
Chandler.
1997 began with a bit of glorious news for Erica
Kane. She was pregnant with Dimitri's baby. In a quiet dinner at the hunting
lodge, she broke the news to Dimitri, who informed Erica of a medical condition
that his child could possibly inherit. Erica and Dimitri planned for a third,
and hopefully final wedding.
At the same time, Skye, who was more obsessed than ever with Edmund Grey,
schemed to get her hands on the paternity test results for Maria's unborn baby.
After seducing Andy, a nerdy lab technician, Skye saw the tests - which revealed
that Edmund, not Dimitri, was the father of the baby. Intent on wooing Edmund
away from Maria, Skye surreptitiously changed the test results. A guilt-ridden
Maria finally broke the stunning news to Edmund that she slept with his brother.
Edmund stormed out, but eventually accepted the betrayal and returned to Maria.
On Erica's wedding day, the bride to be collapsed and was rushed to Pine Valley
Hospital. The news was not good. Erica lost her unborn baby. The news crushed
both Erica and Dimitri who began to plan to fill the void by adopting a baby.
Soon, Erica grew more suspicious of Dimitri and Maria. Fearing that Maria was
carrying Dimitri's baby, Erica resolved to get the truth. The old, scheming
Erica resurfaced as she lured Maria to a remote cabin in the woods. Locked
together in the cabin, Erica demanded that Maria confess the truth. Finally,
Maria snapped, admitting that she slept with Dimitri. An unforgiving Erica then
watched as Maria went into labor! Erica had no choice but to deliver the baby!
Maria only had a chance to see the baby's telltale birthmark before Erica
whisked the child away.
Braving a storm, Erica attempted to drive the
baby to the hospital, but her car skidded and plunged off a bridge into the icy
waters below. Erica survived, and dived into the murky waters to find the child
- to no avail. Unbeknownst to anyone, a reclusive woman named Esther rescued the
baby girl. Erica located Esther, and convinced her to give up the child. Erica
had a plan - she would convince the world that she had adopted the baby (whom
she named Sonya) in Russia. Maria, Edmund and Dimitri were led to believe that
the baby (whom they thought was a boy) had perished. After months of passing off
the child as her own, a guilt-ridden Erica finally confessed what she had done,
and baby Sonya was joyously returned to her rightful parents, Edmund and Maria.
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