Itīs a girl! Stephanie was several decades late in telling Eric that the comatose woman she was harboring in a separate house was actually their microcephalic daughter, Angela. Eric was initially irate with Steph for robbing him of over 20 years with his daughter. But before he even could begin to forge a bond with his bedridden progeny, he suffered another blow. Turns out, the sickly woman was a con artist. His daughter had died several years earlier in a wheelchair accident.
Soap Opera Digest, December 22, 1998.