1. Rita Stapleton Bauer is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera Guiding Light.
14 Facts About Rita Stapleton
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Rita Stapleton was born and raised in Bluefield, West Virginia, and is the eldest of two sisters.
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Rita Stapleton's father was a coal miner, and her mother was a schoolteacher.
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When she first arrived in Springfield to take a job as a nurse at Cedars Hospital, Rita Stapleton began dating Dr Tim Ryan.
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However, unbeknownst to him, Rita Stapleton shared a past with his nemesis Roger Thorpe.
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Rita Stapleton briefly dated Dr Peter Chapman, though he turned out to be more interested in Ed's ex-wife Holly Norris Bauer.
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Rita Stapleton grew closer to Rita during a period where she had to contend with an apparent stalker, who pushed Rita down a flight of stairs, tampered with her brakes, and attempted to set her apartment on fire.
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When Rita Stapleton found herself pregnant, she was unable to determine whether Ed or Greg was the father.
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Toward the end of her pregnancy, Rita Stapleton decided to undergo paternity testing on her fetus in order to try to determine whether Ed or Greg was the father.
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Roger abducted Rita Stapleton and brought her to a remote cabin.
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Roger fled, but Rita Stapleton went into premature labour and accidentally kicked over a kerosene lamp.
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For months, Rita Stapleton recuperated at home with her mother in West Virginia.
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Ed remained emotionally distant, and Rita Stapleton began to have a torrid affair with Alan Spaulding, who was at the time married to her niece Hope Bauer.
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Eve informed Ed that she believed Rita Stapleton had left San Francisco a few months after arriving there because she feared she was being followed and that she'd then lost contact with her sister.