1985, Terry Moses Williams, William Kornblum, Growing Up Poor, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 92:
So I took a bath, brushed my teeth, ate, combed my hair, and put on some clothes. And watched my stories [soap operas] on TV until 2:00.
1997, Retrospective Soap Box, New York Magazine, December 15, 1997, page 116:
In any event, what the Emmy Awards call daytime dramas and what our grandmothers called "my stories" are saluted through March 29 with a gallery exhibit, screenings of early episodes, and seminars with soap pioneers.
2004, Robert Clyde Allen with Annette Hill, The Television Studies Reader, London, Routledge, →ISBN, page 242:
Whether called soap operas, soaps, telenovelas, teleromans, or as my mother calls them, simply "my stories," television serials constitute one of the most popular and resilient forms of storytelling ever devised.
2005, Louise Spence, Watching Daytime Soap Operas: The Power of Pleasure, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, →ISBN, page 16:
...women often refer to soap operas in the first person singular possessive, "my stories," for instance, or "my soap," or "my show"...
2007 January 24, Danielle McClure, Julie Poll quoted in Expert Poll: Q&A With Author Julie Poll,Soap Opera Digest (article):
When [soaps] first started, people called them "my stories," and I really think people still think of it that way today. There's a comfort factor there.
