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[[Image:Helen_hippie.png|left|190px|thumb|Helen in her hippy days, receiving a badly-made candle ("Sappy Anniversary")]]
Helen Barksdale's early years were spent in the shadow of her older sister, [[Rita Barksdale|Rita]], whom her mother spoiled rotten with attention and money. Helen grew up extremely resentful of being ignored but at the same time determined to be the best at everything she did, probably in hopes of one day winning the approval of her parents.
Once in college, Helen became a hippie and joined the late 1960s counterculture. While in [[Middleton College]], she met [[Jake Morgendorffer]] and the two began dating. Jake and Helen each had issues with their families and may have connected because of that. After
Helen enrolled in law school and, like her husband, rejected the hippie lifestyle and embraced the world of corporate America. She has, on occasion, felt guilty about not retaining her hippie ideals (though she gets over it quickly).
Helen became a corporate lawyer, a career that became the focus of her life. Even after she became the mother of two daughters, she continued to work at the expense of her family. While failing to make partner at the firms she worked for, Helen likely became the family bread-winner due to her long hours put in at work, though the exact amount that she earns in comparison to her husband is never revealed either in actual salary numbers or real work hours put in respectively with either parent.
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