SPOTLIGHT: The Love Story of Y&R's Kitty and Zapato

It's very hard for me to write this right now. I hope you can all bare with me. Romance has always been such a major part of our soaps and I truly thought we had lost it. I didn't believe I would ever melt when two characters saw each other for the first time across a dirty potting shed.

That all changed when Kitty and Zapato met for the first time on the Tuesday, July 14 episode of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. It was as if they had known each other forever. I worried that Zapato would allow the Newmans to color how he feels about Kitty, but he sniffed her like he would anyone he loved. And in the moments that Kitty spent with Zapato, it was as if his sniff brought her back to life. I haven't seen her so animated for weeks.

I just have to believe that THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS is going to make this couple work. Kitty and Zapato are from two different worlds and I know their union will be fraught with complications. For so long, Kitty has only had MJ in her life. She is a loner and feels she doesn't need anyone. Zapato thinks he has everything in the world that he needs. With that harpy Ashley around, Zapato will always have someone. But Zapato needs true love just as much as Kitty does. MJ and Victor may try to come between them but it will only make them stronger!

I am going to fight for this couple. I just need to figure out what their song is going to be!