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'''Cordelia''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Tell me]] we don't live in a soap opera.|''[[Angel]]'', "A New World"}}
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome (or SORAS) is the device by which writers—possibly frustrated with a [[Cousin Oliver]]—send a young child off in order to get back someone old enough to remember lines ''and'' have hot and steamy romances. (Not to mention the avoidance of all those [http://www.sag.org/content/coogan-law pesky child labor laws] aimed at protecting children in show business, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030025421/http://www.nyspcc.org/nyspcc/ the public and private agencies] that investigate abuses.)
On daytime soaps, pregnancy is a staple storyline. However, the resulting child is rarely seen after his paternity and/or baby switch has been resolved. When a few years have passed, he returns as a teenager old enough to have a summer romance.
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