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I've been thinking a lot about my sister Karen lately. The past year and a half has been so busy, I'm not sure I've fully grieved her death. In a chapter devoted to her in my memoir (which I'm furiously revising now), I mention her love of music and her extensive record collection. She was a huge fan of Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez and other folk artists and protest music of the 1960s. I can still hear some of those albums being played--with a great deal of static--on our old Recordio radio and record player/recorder. The sound was awful, but in those days it was as good as it got. When I was fifteen, I finally got a high-tech turntable that dropped records from the stack one by one, but Karen had married and moved away by then. Karen's love of music began when she volunteered for the backstage crew in her high school production of Bye Bye Birdie. She was hooked!! The rest of her life was filled with music of the 50s, and 60s, along with country favorites, and Broadway or movie soundtracks--she had eclectic tastes. She particularly loved The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago; I suspect she'd seen each of them 40 or 50 times before she died. She'd announce now and then she was watching a movie marathon on TV, like West Side Story, one showing after the other all weekend. (I admit this is one of my favorites too--"Somewhere" is magnificent!) She traveled to a nearby theater for live musical performances as often as she could. Probably Karen's favorite artist, though, was Bob Dylan. It seems a bit of an odd choice for her, considering her earlier favorites, but there you have it. The last time I spoke to her, she had Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" blaring in the background, and she remarked how much she loved the iconic Dylan tune; she could really belt it out. I won't ever be able to hear that song again without tears in my eyes. --Janice
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