Who were Edmonds parents?
Edmond Strong Coleridge was the biological son of Frank Ryan and Jillian Coleridge, although for a time everyone thought that Seneca Beaulac was his father. Jill and Seneca had a one-night stand at her beach house. (For the purpose of determining an exact timeframe to count the months of the pregnancy, I checked the dates on SoapNet’s synopses – this episode originally aired on July 30, 1976.) At the time, Frank had ended his extramarital affair with Jill to try to make things work with Delia. Frank and Jill made love less than a month later on the August 27, 1976 episode, for the first time in almost a year. Jill began showing symptoms of pregnancy before she went back to Frank, but thought nothing of them since – being the classic uptight and slightly neurotic overachiever – she’d had those same symptoms (headaches, dizziness, nausea) throughout her life as the result of stress. It took a long, long time for Jill to figure out that she was pregnant, at which point she could not remem
