“And then Janis pointing out places-‘Well, I had an apartment there. “I just remember driving with the parents through the Haight-Ashbury area looking at hippies,” Michael said. I think it’s that Family Dog photo with all the bands, and there are all these weird people with long hair.” “I can’t remember what magazine it was, but I took it to school.

“She would send underground papers from San Francisco, and I was eating it up,” Michael recalled. Like most younger siblings, the Joplins lived vicariously through their big sister. And we got into putting our hair up together and wearing jewelry. We shared clothes, because we were the same size. She was going to college, and we shared a VW Bug together. “But the things I remember the most are when she was at home the year before she joined Big Brother. “She read me bedtime stories, took me around the neighborhood as a toddler,” Laura said. What she said was, ‘Well, just look at it flat.’ I understood immediately what she meant.” He clapped his hands together and made a thwap sound. When he was around ten, “she gave me some key sentences that made me able to see 3-D to 2-D. “Janis was a painter, and I was always in awe of how well she was doing it,” Michael said. Both are in their sixties, with excellent recall of their years in Port Arthur, Texas. Laura Joplin, who wore gold hoop earrings and gold bracelets, is a former education consultant and organizes TEDx talks in her town of Chico, California. Michael Joplin, who wore socks embroidered with musical staffs, is a glassblower living in Tucson. One night before a preview, the Joplins crammed into a dressing room at the Lyceum, as cast members sang scales in the hallway.

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