ATWT Pt 2: Wedding scenes bring back painful memories...

I feel Luke's pain.

When he stood next to Noah as he took Ameera as his wedded wife, it unexpectedly ripped off the scab of one of those long-ago traumatic experiences that I was so good at getting in the middle of in my 20s and early 30s. In some misguided mix of loyalty, stupidity and desperation, I was in the wedding of my former "best friend" - who I was deeply in love with. He wasn't marrying a woman to keep her in the country though, he was just taking a path in life that was different than mine. I wanted to be in his life no matter what so I donned the tuxedo and even gave the toast to the lovely couple.

It took me years to realize what a souless twit he is (ouch!) but watching Luke do the same for Noah on "As the World Turns" just brought it all back for a few minutes there. So here I am, sharing this raw moment with thousands of readers.

Anyway, I'm afraid that Luke and Noah have a long, hard road ahead of them. After the wedding, and after Ameera went to bed, Noah held their marriage license and said: "It's pretty official looking - signed, sealed and delivered. I still hope that we'll have one of those with our names on it."

Luke: "You promise?"

Noah: "I do."