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Bettina Lloyd, a reporter struggling to make a career for herself on a New York magazine, finds herself obliged to accept an assignment that will take her back to her hometown in Ohio to investigate a report of a series of so-called medical "miracles". Her return forces her to face a mother with whom she has an estranged relationship, a father facing a future alone, a brother with a drinking problem... When she tries to examine the story, she is shocked to find that the root of the "miracles" lies with her former teenage romantic interest who has been comatose for over a decade and that his mother has been conducting medical cures by the laying on of his hand over the afflicted... But, surprisingly, the heart of the story is in Bettina herself...how she is forced to come to grips, sometimes through flashbacks, at times by being confronted by a growing crisis in her mother's health with the traumatic events in her young life which tore her away from her family...events which eventually are brought to the surface and resolved by the very situation which brought her home in the first place... Points to the acting, which gives us the right tough of honesty and believability without going over the melodramatic top.

what an eerie feeling to watch this episode unfold and suddenly sit upright and realize how similar the story was to a crime that gripped the public here in Canada about 10-11 years ago...!! a failed accountant responsible for over 100 rapes in the Toronto area subsequently married...together with his wife, they kidnapped raped tortured and murdered 2 young teenage girls...previously, his wife had drugged her younger sister with a horse tranquilizer and given her to him as a Christmas present; subsequently the sister died from the drug...Wife also participated in the kidnapping and assault of prostitutes...talk about deja vu all over again...!!!

I don't really remember much about this show..about a pig-tailed girl who hangs around farmer Mcgarrity who always seemed to be working in his vegetable garden, and who was always having problems with pesky varmints like rabbits who were always after his vegetables...I must have around 13-14 at the time, with overcharged hormones, so I would get kind of aroused fantasizing about what was REALLY going on between them..(sorry...told you I was perverted)... Anyway, I probably didn't even notice that Maggie and the old man kept changing as the series went on, what with cast changes and such...just kept watching it, and lusting after Maggie, waiting for something ANYTHING exciting to happen...it never did..farmer Mcgarrity was too obsessed with them pesky varmints, and Maggie never seemed to have anything better to do with her time then hang around that damned vegetable patch....but like she always said at the end of every episode; "I don't know what'll happen tomorrow!" Poor Maggie...nothing ever did....