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Hislop, Julia: Friend of the Turner family when Julia Jean (Lana) was a child. When times were hard and Mildred had to find work and place young Julia Jean in a foster home, she chose the Hislops. This proved to be a grievous error, as the mother of the family, Julia Hislop (who was more than likely mentally ill) would often fly into a rage when something (such as a household chore) wasn't done to her satisfaction. She was often abusive and usually Julia Jean was her target. Julia Jean endured two years of painful silence after being threatened with more beatings if she told her mother. One Sunday when Mildred Turner came to take her daughter shopping for new under things she noticed bruises and welts on her daughter's body.
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In the original Superboy stories, Lana was the girl who lived next door to the Kent family in Smallville, and was a romantic interest of Superboy. In the Silver Age stories, Lana often behaved like a younger version of Lois, spending much of her time trying to prove that Superboy and Clark Kent were one and the same.
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Lana ... has a love for acting. In middle school, she performed leading roles in two plays. Her 16th birthday was celebrated in Tyler, Texas, on opening night of “The Best of Broadway,” a musical production at Tyler Civic Theatre where Lana was cast as Sandy performing a medley of songs from Grease.
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Lana ... had various adventures with Superboy, and several with the futuristic superhero team the Legion of Super-Heroes. Also appearing in some Silver Age stories was Lana's uncle, Professor Potter, an eccentric inventor.
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When Lana moved back to Smallville, she didn't move in with Chloe and her dad. Instead, she rented the apartment above the Talon from Lex. Lana helped Lois plan for Chloe's eighteenth birthday party in November, but they didn't find an opportunity for a real heart-to-heart until January. When Jason inexplicably broke up with Lana, she guessed that it was because they hadn't consummated their relationship. She sought out Chloe at the Torch for some sisterly advice. Chloe confided that sometimes she regretted her first time was so early.
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Lana began touring in Japan in 1998 to support Garden of the Moon and the subsequent Ballad Collection and Queen of the Ocean releases. She then expanded her touring efforts to Europe in 2001 to support Secrets of Astrology with additional tours in 2003 and 2004. Lana released her first DVD, Storybook: Tales from Europe and Japan, in 2004 that documents her first years of touring on two continents.
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