sentences:  Carly Benson (originated by Sarah Brown), had been in town since 1996, making grand gestures to make her birth mother, Bobbie Spencer's, life miserable.In 1999, writer Patrick Mulcahey had admitted the writers were not sure which direction Carly was going in.Brown and Benard proved to have chemistry when tested on-screen, and their couple would propel them into supercouple status in the coming decade.