Holden Snyder and Lily Walsh

Holden Snyder and Lily Walsh Snyder are fictional characters and the signature supercouple of the American daytime drama "As the World Turns".cite news| first=Abby| last=West | title=17 Great Soap Supercouples: Holden and Lily|publisher="Entertainment Weekly"|accessdate=2008-01-29|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20174499_6,00.html] [ [http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Soaps/News/default.aspx?posting=%7B50C00215-2D2B-43DA-85EF-22B8E8784490%7D TV Guide: Holden and Lily] ] Holden is portrayed by Jon Hensley and Lily is portrayed by Noelle Beck, and formerly by Martha Byrne. On internet message boards, the couple is often referred by the portmanteau "Lilden" (for Lily and Holden).

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Lily Walsh first met Holden Snyder in the stables at her mother, Lucinda Walsh's house. Holden was the new stable boy and there was an instant attraction between them despite her relationship with boyfriend Dusty Donovan. When Lily felt neglected by her mother, she found comfort in Holden and his family. Lily found herself very comfortable with the Snyder family, whose down-home values were a welcome change to Lucinda's controlling nature.

In addition to forming a very close friendship with Holden's mother Emma Snyder, Lily also became close with Holden's older sister, Iva Snyder, who seemed to be very protective of Lily. The reason for Iva's attitude toward Lily became apparent when Lily started befriending the older Rod Landry. Lily and Rod's relationship made Iva very uncomfortable and when she saw the pair innocently horsing around in the pond, a panicked Iva warned him to stay away from Lily because she was his daughter! It was then that Iva was forced to admit her deep dark secret--at the age of 13, she was brutally raped by her cousin Josh Snyder and ran off. She became pregnant and gave birth to a little girl who she gave up for adoption--that girl was Lily. Shocked beyond belief, Lily told Iva she hated her and then ran away. Not knowing what to do once she got out of Oakdale, she called her newfound sister, Sierra Estaban, but when Lucinda got on the phone to talk, Lily told her she wasn't her mother and hung up.

Meanwhile, Holden and Dusty both went off to look for her with Dusty finding her first. After he called John Dixon to tell him that Lily was fine, he and Lily made plans to run off together but were found by Holden. When Lily learned that Dusty sold her out to John, she shunned him and sought comfort with Holden and returned home. Though there were concerns that Lily and Holden were related, Emma put everyone's mind at ease by relating that both Iva and Josh were adopted into the family, thus Holden and Lily aren't biologically related. Free to be together, the pair made plans to marry, however Lucinda disapproved of Holden more than Dusty and decided to put a stop to the relationship by telling Lily that Holden knew the truth of her parentage all along. Angry and hurt, Lily broke off with Holden and turned to Dusty, with whom she lost her virginity. Soon after, Dusty convinced her to return to Oakdale and then left for college himself.

Lily and Holden went their separate ways and pursued different relationships. After his divorce from Emily Stewart, Holden tried getting back together with Lily, but a series of events led him to believe that she was in love with his brother, Caleb. Holden and Caleb had always had a rivalry going on, and Holden was disgusted to learn how Caleb had callously dumped a pregnant Angel Lange, who ended up getting a bad abortion. Disgusted by Caleb's treatment of Angel (who Caleb had tried to hide from the family), Holden befriended her. However, Angel misread Holden's intentions and instigated a kiss, which was seen by Lily. Thinking she lost Holden, she became closer to Caleb, who Holden believed was using Lily for her money. Fed up with the situation, Holden quickly left town to sort out his life.

When he returned a few years later, he was married to Angel. Despite Angel's attempt to cement their marriage by adopting a child, Noelle (who was subsequently given back to her biological parents), Holden found himself pining for Lily. By now he finally realized that he belonged with Lily and tried to get Angel to divorce him. Angel finally did give him a divorce and he and Lily married. Lily was so happy when she got pregnant. Sadly she miscarried and went into a deep depression. Meanwhile, Holden found out that a former liaison with Julie Wendell produced a son, Aaron Snyder, who she gave to Iva. Hurt and angry, Holden went to New York to confront her. After talking to Julie, Holden was mugged and lost his memory. Even though Lily tried very hard to help Holden regain his memory, he could not remember her or their many years together. So he asked her for a divorce. Lily, devastated, left Oakdale to live in Europe where she met and married Italian Damian Grimaldi.

Lily and Damian returned to Oakdale to be close to her family. By this time Holden had started having memory flashes and wanted to renew his friendship with Lily, since most of his memories seemed to be of her. In November 1994, Lily found herself kidnapped by a man named Hans but luckily was rescued by Holden, Damian and his cousin, Eduardo. After this ordeal, Lily decided to give her marriage another try, despite her strong attraction to Holden.

Meanwhile, Holden learned again that Aaron was his son and decided to sue Iva for custody. Though Iva tried to convince him that she was giving the boy a good home, the amnesiac Holden had no loyalty to his sister and ended up winning custody of his son. Lily was becoming disgusted with Damian's intense jealousy of Holden and finally having enough, she ran to Holden and the pair made love. Soon after the Snyder family reunited to attend Caleb's second wedding to Julie. During the wedding festivities, Caleb, Seth, Iva and Emma all tried to get Holden to stay away from Lily. After the wedding ceremony, Lily found out she was pregnant, and suspected that this child was actually Holden's.

Lily decided to give her marriage to Damian another chance, despite her worry about his violent outbursts. Months later, Holden arrived at the Snyder farm to find Lily alone and in labor and delivered her son, Luciano (aka Luke Snyder). When it was learned that Damian was in fact Luke's father, Holden and Aaron moved to Maryland when Holden decided to go on with his life by entering a special memory recovery program.

In 1996, Holden returned to Oakdale and after a blow to the head, regained his entire memory. By now Damian was presumed dead, so Holden and Lily were free to get married. Making matters complicated was Holden's old lover, Molly Conlan, who Lily met when she was in prison. Having had a child with Holden when they were teens, Molly confessed the truth to Holden, stating that she gave the girl up for adoption.

In the course of finding their daughter, Abigail Williams, Molly attempted to destroy Holden and Lily's relationship so she and Holden could reunite. However, her plans failed and all she succeeded in doing was alienating herself from Holden and Lily. Meanwhile, Lily learned that Damian did not die, but she chose to remain with Holden, her true love, and they married.

Soon after getting married, Lily got pregnant. What should have been a happy occasion was marred by the appearance of David Stenbeck in their lives. David kidnapped Lily and planned on raising her newborn daughter as his own. With the police closing in, David escaped with the baby only to be found (without the baby) by Holden. After a struggle, David was shot and Holden, thinking he was dead, quickly buried him and withheld all knowledge of what happened for fear of what David's father, James Stenbeck would do. The only person who had any knowledge of what happened was Julia Lindsay, the fiancée of Holden's cousin, Detective Jack Snyder. The ordeal over, Holden and Lily named their baby Hope. However, unbeknownst to anyone, David switched Lily's baby with someone else's. After almost a year, Holden and Lily found their real baby, who was being raised by a very-much alive David! After the truth was discovered, the Snyders then renamed the girl Faith and gave Hope back to her birth mother.

Holden and Lily began to drift apart when he began working at the TV station, WOAK, and Lily befriended Australian Simon Fraiser. Holden was confused when Lily returned from a trip to Atlantic City a changed woman. This Lily was cold and refused to sleep with Holden, which he took as a sign that she wanted a divorce. Angry and hurt, Holden was unnerved and mere weeks later, Lily begged him for a reconciliation. Put off by the sudden turnaround, Holden kept his distance but eventually gave in and made love to his wife, only to learn later that she wasn't his wife. It seemed that the woman who came back from Atlantic City was not Lily, but her look-a-like, Rose D'Angelo.

It turned out that Lily had learned of a woman who looked identical to her after finding a picture Simon had. Curious, Lily's investigation led her to Atlantic City where she found out she had a twin sister named Rose. Simon was determined to find a valuable diamond that had been passed through Rose's family. Lily decided to follow Simon on his quest so he couldn't steal Rose's diamond. To keep Holden from finding out, Lily and Rose switched places with Lily heading off with Simon and Rose returning to Oakdale and Holden.

Lily and Simon ended up on a deserted island for months after escaping from Simon's crazy sister. During their time on the island, Lily and Simon became very close. When Holden realized what was going on, he went on a quest to find his missing wife, only to find her in the arms of Simon. Disgusted at the state of his marriage, Holden moved out of the mansion and had a brief fling with Rose. Lily continued her romance with Simon after returning to Oakdale, but Lily and Holden quickly realized they belonged together and reconciled.

Tragedy would strike again when Damian returned asking that Luke (who had been raised as Holden's son) go to Malta with him. Suspicious, Holden and Lily refused only to learn that Damian planned to kidnap Luke. Trying to stop it from happening, Holden went to the docks to stop the kidnapping, only to be caught in an explosion. Presumed dead for weeks, Holden and Luke were actually imprisoned in Malta by Damian's greedy half-brother, Dante. Luckily, Holden was found and rescued by Lily, Simon, and Damian, only to have Damian run away with Luke. In the end, Damian returned Luke to his family and once Luke was out of danger (after the death of Dante), Holden made arrangements to adopt him. Months later at Christmas, Lily and Holden celebrated the birth of their daughter, Natalie.

After a few years of quiet family life, The Snyders would be thrown into turmoil due to Rose's murder. Totally destroyed by her sister's death, Lily shut herself off from her family and secluded herself. Not knowing how she could live without Rose, Lily started to lose herself and talk and dress like Rose, to the horror of all around her. Not able to handle her grief, and unwilling to confide in anyone, Lily ran off to Atlantic City, impersonating Rose. Although Holden was able to find her, it was obvious that Lily wasn't doing well and after Dusty (who had returned to Oakdale and romanced Rose before her death) blasted her for trivializing Rose's memory by acting like her, a distraught Lily ran off and attempted suicide by jumping into the freezing Snyder pond. Luckily, Dusty rescued her and Lily tried to go on with her life. Lily didn't even find peace after learning who killed Rose and continued to wallow in her grief, continually shutting out Holden and the kids, choosing to spend most of her time at Rose's. Not knowing how to comfort Lily, but realizing that she needed to talk to someone, Holden reluctantly enlisted Dusty to help draw Lily out. Although she remained distant at first, in time, Lily accepted Rose's death and she and Holden bridged the gap between them.

Their happiness was short-lived when Jack was presumed dead. Saddened at losing his best friend, Holden couldn't get comfort from Lily since she was preoccupied helping her former brother-in-law, Craig Montgomery, despite the entire family's assertion that he was unworthy. But the one person who did understand was Molly, who felt tremendous amount of guilt about what happened to Jack. While trying to reassure Molly that she wasn't at fault, the pair got close and kissed. Although they both pulled away, the kiss only made Molly feel more guilty and more determined to leave Oakdale. Meanwhile Lily was becoming close to Craig. When Holden quickly confessed the kiss to Lily, it only increased the tension in the Snyder family. Wanting to focus on their marriage, Holden told Lily to get Craig out of the guest house and sever ties with him. Although she reluctantly complied, it became obvious that Lily was going to continue to befriend Craig and let herself be insinuated into his problems.

After a year of Lily focusing on herself and other people instead of their marriage, Holden had enough and found himself drawn to a woman named Julia Larrabee. When Aaron was in critical condition following a boxing accident, it was Julia who helped Holden through it and not Lily. Soon the gulf between Holden and Lily widened and he leaned on Julia for support and friendship. The final straw for the Snyder marriage was when Lily stood Holden up on New Year's Eve in order to help rescue a kidnapped Craig. Waiting alone, Holden encountered a lonely Julia and the two continued to bond. Days later, Holden decided to leave Lily. Lily couldn't bear it though and connived with Carly to get Julia out of Oakdale. However, their machinations only served to drive Holden further away and eventually into Julia's arms. Although Lily tried to plead with him to work on their marriage, Holden felt that he'd tried enough and refused. At the same time, Lily's actions toward Julia caused Holden to take out a restraining order against Lily for Julia. That action would have serious consequences. When Luke found out what Holden had done, he went to Julia's apartment and in a fit of anger, trashed her apartment. When he confessed to Lily about what he'd done, Lily went to the apartment to cover Luke's tracks. Unfortunately, Julia caught her in the act and the two argued, culminating into Lily shoving Julia. Unfortunately, Julia struck her head against the mantleplace. Lily then left, leaving an unconscious, but alive, Julia. However, that night when Lily returned, Julia was dead. Scared, Lily called Carly and they cleaned up the apartment to erase any evidence of Lily being there. However, the police suspected foul play. Holden's suspicions fell on Luke since he'd been hostile towards Julia for a while. Then it was learned that Luke burned evidence of Lily being at the scene. Soon after, Lily confessed about the argument and stated Julia was alive when she left. However, things got confusing when Lily suddenly confessed to intentionally murdering Julia. But when new evidence came along implicating Julia's ex-husband, Les, Lily finally admitted that she'd been lying to protect Luke.

While Les appeared to be the guilty party, Lucinda started suspecting that it was Julia's brother, Keith Morrisey, who was the murderer. Concerned since Lily was now becoming attached to Keith, Lucinda voiced her concerns to Holden, who wanted to stay out of it. Despite himself, Holden started sharing Lucinda's concerns as well. However, he had trouble convincing Lily of that and she ultimately suggested that they should get divorced. In the end, Les turned out to be guilty after all and Holden was dismayed when Lily bonded even further with Keith. However, several weeks later, the relationship ended when Lily learned that Keith transported Lucinda, who was suffering from cancer, to Mexico for alternative treatment. Distressed by her mother’s decision to end her chemotherapy, Lily was livid that Keith went against her wishes to help her mother. Things got worse soon after when it was learned that Luke secretly boarded Keith’s plane and was lost in Mexico. Keith, Lily, and Holden traveled to Mexico to find him. Meanwhile, Lucinda finally told Lily Keith’s secret. He was illegally transporting human organs. While in Mexico searching for Luke, Lily and Holden wound up making love. Luckily, they were able to find Luke. After coming back home, Lily and Holden decided to work on their relationship just as Keith returned to town. Disgusted by what he did for a living, Lily ordered him out of her house and her life. Later Lily and Holden received devastating news. His time in Mexico had damaged Luke’s kidney. He needed a transplant but no one was a match. That’s when Keith stepped in and offered to find a suitable kidney, but for a price: Lily’s hand in marriage. Desperate, Lily agreed to the terms. Although she tried to keep the reason for her change of heart a secret, Holden figured out that the kidney came from Keith and that’s why Lily was marrying him. However, a few weeks later, Lily decided that she couldn’t do it and pleaded with Keith to release her from her promise. To her relief, he did and Lily and Holden renewed their wedding vows. Not long after, Lily learned she was pregnant.

Meanwhile, Luke began hanging out with his friend, Kevin. Kevin was a party animal who continually encourage Luke to get drunk with him. Despite the fact that a damaged liver could kill him, Luke did it anyway. On more than one occasion his family found out and finally Holden forbade him from seeing Kevin. Meanwhile, Holden couldn’t help but notice Luke’s closeness to Kevin and couldn’t help but wonder how close they really were. Convinced that Luke was hiding something, Holden continually tried to get him to open up but Luke kept pushing him away. His suspicions about Luke growing, Holden decided to peek into Luke’s laptop to uncover his secret but was caught red handed by an angry Luke.

Meanwhile, at the same time, a young woman named Jade Taylor had entered the Snyders' lives claiming to be the daughter Rose gave up for adoption. Although the Snyders could verify that Rose did have a daughter, there was no proof that Jade was that daughter. Despite this, Lily decided to take the girl at her word. Meanwhile, Holden finally voiced his suspicion to Jack: he thought Luke was gay. While talking to Jack, Holden realized that what was important was Luke being happy; being gay wouldn’t factor into that. However, Holden still couldn’t bring himself to ask Luke the question. Luke covered his secret by pretending to be in a relationship with Jade, who needed Luke to help her stay at the Snyder house after a furious Lily found out Jade was lying about being Rose's daughter. Despite the fact that Jade had betrayed her, Lily let her stay out of fear that Luke would run away with Jade.

Luke though finally decided that his secrecy wasn’t worth it and confessed to his parents that he was gay. Ironically, it was Lily, not Holden, who had the most trouble accepting this fact. Not long after, Damian arrived in town. Tensions flared between the two men because Holden was convinced that Damian was in town to manipulate Luke. A few weeks later, tragedy struck when during an argument, Luke accidentally shoved Lily down the stairs, landing her in a coma. Incredulous, Holden demanded answers and Luke informed him that Lily had plans to send him to a camp that "reprograms" gay boys to be straight. However, Holden refused to believe that Lily would do that, but had suspicions that Damian would.

As Holden kept watch over his comatose wife, the gulf between him and Luke widened with Luke (who believed that Holden blamed him for Lily’s accident) moving into Fairwinds with Damian. As the weeks went by, Holden’s initial anger toward Luke softened but he barely saw his son and Luke wouldn’t return his phone calls. Later, over a month after she’d fallen into the coma, Lily’s baby moved into the breech position. Holden was told that unless the baby was delivered now, it could die. On the flip side, there was a chance that Lily could die from the caesarian. Realizing that Lily would never forgive him if he chose her life over their child’s, he told the doctors to go ahead with the caesarian. Luckily, both Lily and their new baby boy, Ethan, came through just fine.

As Holden welcomed his new son into the world, things looked up when Luke agreed to come back home. Unfortunately, not long after Luke changed his mind and informed Holden that he had to stay with Damian since Damian was dying. However, Holden didn't buy that for a second and asked Lily's niece, Lucy Montgomery, now a doctor, to investigate. In the meantime, Luke was making plans to go with Damian to Malta. When Damian seemed in a hurry to leave, Holden and Jack rushed to the airport to meet them and confronted Damian. Suddenly, Damian’s colleague, Sergio, got desperate and held Luke hostage. Luckily, Damian diffused the situation and was forced to confess that he needed Luke in Malta too because he needed his inheritance. During the course of Damian’s revelation, Luke figured out it was Damian, not Lily, who wanted to send him to a reprogramming camp. Angry that Damian had been playing him for weeks, Luke bitterly disowned his father and although he was within rights to pursue kidnapping charges, he declined in order to spare his family: the Snyders.

Once Lily awoke from her coma, she reunited with Holden and her family. While in a coma, she had a vision of Rose telling her to find Theresa. Lily found out the identity of her niece to be Jade Taylor.

As of October 2007, the couple are on the brink of divorce, being separated because Holden couldn't take any more of Lily's lies. Finally, after Luke was paralyzed, Holden came to believe it was somehow Lily's fault as she knew Winston Mayer (who shot Luke) was dangerous. Holden filed for separation papers and found comfort in his divorce lawyer; that same night Lily found comfort with Dusty Donovan as they reminisced of old times. The two then made love. When Holden found out, he was furious, and after inviting Lily to Thanksgiving dinner, he said to her, "If he didn't know it was over before ... he knows now." After Lucinda orchestrated a plan with her stepson Evan Walsh (via marriage to James Walsh) to take over Montgomery Enterprises from Meg Snyder, Lily intervened. Evan realized the plan had succeeded and in the process he murdered Dusty and planned to murder Lucinda for $10 million and WorldWide. Lily however came to her rescue and was captured herself, only to later kill James in a roof top scuffle. She and Holden would later reunite as Lucinda regained WorldWide. Lily however couldn't shake the feeling that Lucinda was responsible for Dusty's death. Because of Lily's attachment to Dusty it affected her marriage to Holden and Holden started to rely on Carly Tenney. This escalates into an affair. As of July 17, 2008 Lily is aware of the affair and it is unknown what will happen

Memorable quotes

Holden to Lily when they first met at Lucinda's stables:

"Name's Holden Snyder. Mrs. Walsh's stableboy."

Lily to Holden at the Snyder farm in October 1991, the day before Lily and Holden are to be married. Holden has asked her if she remembers when he told her they were always going to be together:

"Of course I do. It was in the hayloft when your mother was in Kansas. You said we were meant to spend our lives together."

Other

Martha Byrne wrote a song for Holden and Lily called "Find My Way Back," which she performed on her CD, "The Other Side." She performed the song on the SoapNet talk show SoapTalk as photos of Lily and Holden were shown.

See also

*List of fictional supercouples

References

External links

* [http://www.soapcentral.com SoapCentral]