Last Known Parents: Jim Lemay (died 2001) and Connie Lemay (died 1997)
Biological Mother: Harley Cooper Spaulding
Biological Father: Dylan Shayne-Lewis (left town 1994)
Circumstances of Birth: Spoiled Alan-Michael Spaulding was trying to show off for Dinah Marler by taking her joy-riding on a stolen motorcycle.
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Unfortunately, the pair crashed into Frank Cooper's car, where his seventeen year old sister, Harley, was laboring in the back seat. Dinah delivered the baby girl Harley called "Daisy," after the flower her long-gone boyfriend Dylan used to give her. Realizing she was too young to be a good mother to Daisy, Harley gave her up for adoption to Jim and Connie Lemay, who re-named her Susan. After Susan's mom died of breast-cancer, Susan came to Springfield looking for Harley. The two formed a tentative bond, but, when Jim was killed in a fire, Susan decided that she would rather go away to school then live with her biological mother.
Ben Reade
Year of Birth: 1986
Last Known Location: Boarding School
Last Known Parent: Fletcher Reade (left town 1998)
Circumstances of Birth: Fed up with her husband, Kyle's, fascination with Reva, Maeve gave birth to son Ben in the apartment of her friend, Louie, and told Kyle the baby had died. For months, all of Springfield played "Baby, baby, who's got the baby?" as Louie passed his "orphaned cousin" from one pair of helping hands to the next. When Maeve offered to "adopt" the child, she found out Kyle had also decided to adopt the boy - for himself and Reva! Horrified of losing her son, Maeve crashed Kyle and Reva's wedding ceremony to blurt out the truth. Kyle left town a year later, and Maeve wed Fletcher Reade, who adopted the boy upon her death.
Peter Reardon
Year of Birth: 1993
Last Known Location: Montana
Adoptive Mother(s): Nadine Cooper Lewis (killed 1995), Vanessa Chamberlin Reardon (left town 2000)
Adoptive Father: Billy Lewis
Biological Mother: Bridget Reardon (left town 1995)
Biological Father: Hart Jessup (Killed 1999)
Circumstances of Birth: A one night stand with Hart left teen-age Bridget pregnant. Scheming Nadine hid Bridget in the attic, planning to pass the baby off as her own and Billy's. Unhappy, Bridget ran to her friend, David, to tell him everything, and David ended up delivering baby Peter in the back of a car in an alley! Nadine managed to fool Billy for a little while, but, when he learned the truth, he divorced her and re-married Vanessa. Vanessa and Billy adopted the baby, but, when Billy was sent to prison for shooting Roger Thorpe, Bridget decided she wanted Peter back. Bridget and Vanessa went to court, but, in the end, the two women decided to share custody of "their" son. Soon after, Vanessa married Bridget's brother, Matt, and Bridget left town with Peter to join boyfriend Dylan Shayne-Lewis on his ranch in Montana.
