. >> here is where that dna was planted, oxnard, california. a farm town on the beach north of l.a.'s encroaching sprawl. they grow mostly strawberries here now. lima beans back then. they were different, those days. >> when we grew up, you could ride your bike anywhere. everybody knew everybody. >> this is helen kulouris. of course, she knew the lauts growing up. and that big old farming family of her childhood best friend, jane laubacher. >> our dads were both farmers. old farming families we're both from. >> the laubachers were big here in oxnard. >> there was just lots of laubachers. always lots of laubachers around. you know, it was just -- they multip multiplied. they were good catholics. >> and helen's friend, jane, grew up to be especially beautiful. featured in her high school yearbook as homecoming queen. >> but she was not ever concerned with that. she's also very, very shy. >> how do you get to be homecoming queen if you're shy? >> she's also just a very kind person, very gentle person. >> and as that yearbook shows, a star volleyball player, too. >> she could spike -- i