Lights out on Guiding Light

         Josh and Reva together again.
          The power couple from Guiding Light drove off together to live happily ever after as the light went off on the 72-year-old longest running television drama.
          The show on CBS ended Friday for good with writers trying to wrap up all the loose ends in one hour, including a look ahead a year. Couples got back together. There were weddings, hugs and kisses and kids went off to college. Josh Lewis and Reva Shayne O'Neill, played by Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer, got back together after being married several times.

          Josh told Reva he loved her -- "always have, always will." "Every part of me is designed to be with you," he told her.
          He asked her to meet him in one year at the lighthouse when they both are more ready to be together. Viewers later are fast forwarded to the following year and she shows up with her son at the lighthouse and they are reunited.
         "If you still want to be together, then I'm in," Reva tells him.
         Later other couples are also together at a ball field playing with their children and kissing one another to the song, "Together" by Michelle Branch which includes saying "we belong together."
        "I had tears in my eyes," said Anne Sihler, 66, of Port Orange, who has watched the show since she was little. "Everybody came back at the end of the show."
        Jerry Conley, 52, who watched the show with his wife, Penny, in Port Orange,and watched it as a tribute to his late mother, who loved the show, said "it was a heck of a show."
       "They made it so you feel good that they are going to have good lives," Conley said about the characters. "
        But others weren't too happy with the ending saying writers left unanswered questions, including what happened with Reva's husband, Jeffrey, whom she thought was dead but viewers knew was alive.
       Ruth Bennett, of Ormond Beach, who would only say she's a senior citizen, said she called CBS and complained Friday about how the show ended.
       "I was very disappointed," Bennett said. "They should have done it a different way."
       While Virginia Belmont, 92, of Daytona Beach, a long-time fan, said she liked that Reva and Josh got back together, she thought everything was rushed together in the finale.
       "I guess they had no other way to do it," Belmont said. "It really wasn't realistic how they brought it together."