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"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." For more than half of a century, those words have introduced and underscored one of drama's rare mainstays. Days of our Lives first premiered as a halfhour drama in 1965 and expanded to an hour 10 years later. Days of our Lives is set in the fictitious Midwestern town of Salem. The core families are the Bradys, the Hortons, the DiMeras, the EvansBlacks. the PriceCarvers, the Hernandez, and the Kiriakis family, and the multilayered storylines involve elements of romance, adventure, mystery, comedy and drama.