![]() Who spends the money on the products your network advertises?" By e-mail, she says: "My advice to NBC and General Electric is remember who controls the TVs in these homes. On her Web site, Swank has conveniently provided sample letters. The group is also urging a boycott of NBC and products made by Procter & Gamble, which owns "AW." Write to Wall Street, write to General Electric (which owns NBC), write to Congress, urges Charlotte Swank, the Ohio "AW" fanatic who founded the committee. Larkin is part of the Committee to Save "Another World," which has spearheaded an online petition that in two weeks garnered 4,051 signatures from across the United States and Canada. If characters can come back from the dead in soap operas, why can't this soap opera be saved, she asks. ![]() Larkin, not afraid to lodge a complaint with WBAL when "AW" is interrupted for a breaking news story, has joined the crusade to preserve the show. It's as if all of the characters, Vicky, Paulina, Carl, Rachel, Joe and Jake, et al., "are leaving and I'm left behind." Larkin, 62, has made many friendships through "AW" chat rooms, and today she's feeling bereft. Nearby was a box of tapes containing nearly 100 hours of "AW" (with commercials purged). Yesterday, Larkin sat in her study before her television, hooked up to Comcast digital cable and two VCRs. She taped each show, and on weekends, her friend Etienne came out to catch up on the episodes she missed during the week. ![]() Out in Randallstown, Wanda Larkin, a house-bound widow, is connected to "AW" fans through the Internet.
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