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The eHarmony software would have never come up with this one: Back in the late ’60s, conservative commentator Bill Bennett went on a date with hippie icon Janis Joplin.
So says Bennett’s brother, Bob, in his recently released memoir, “In the Ring.”
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So how’d it go? Bob says Bill told him at the time, “[L]et me put it this way, we were both disappointed.”
Bob, who would go on to be a respected Washington lawyer, begins discussing his close relationship with Bill — who is four years younger — right on the first page of chapter one. “It was standard fare for me to return from grade school and be given a list of neighborhood bullies who had mistreated Bill, then I did my brotherly duty of evening the score,” he writes. “No one was going to hit my little brother. That was a privilege I reserved for myself.”
Take his favorite boyhood game, Rocket Ship. This, according to Bob, “required Bill to get to the top of the staircase, place his arms to his sides, and, under my direction, often accompanied by a push, travel down the stairs headfirst. It is amazing that he is still alive, functioning at a very high level, and still loves me.”
