My mom raised me, and she protected us from all of that by moving us to rural Oregon. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. After a trial noted for the animosity between the two warring sides and full disclosure of the Garcias' private life and Jerry Garcia's assets - the very things he wished to avoid - the judge decided in Carolyn Garcia's favor. So its important that we all have been able to transform it into a time of reflection and celebration, which has helped to bring our community back together over time. ", Cassady's car actually belonged to Kesey, who was living with his Prankster band up at La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Kesey seemed weary, a cruise director at the end of a long and tiring voyage. I used to do large paintings but storage got to be an issue. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. The bare-bones feel of the bar was definitely pulling from the Garcia familys past. Everybody was attached to it.". "I didn't want any whinging. Meanwhile, Koons Garcia's attorney, Paul Camera, has indicated that he will advise his client to appeal. For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. The fairy tale soured. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." I didn't know what to do. Ken Kesey's girlfriend Mountain Girl holds her baby daughter Sunshine. "I had disempowered myself by joining this group," she says. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. He played to her all night. One thing that I wanted to do was fight against the stereotypes of the longhaired stoner and the dirty hippie. My very best friend is a high-functioning lawyer whos also a pot smoker. We're sitting around the kitchen table in the main farmhouse of the sprawling, rustic ranch where Ken Kesey lived from 1972 until his death in 2001 at age 66. There was no uncertainty about that.". For an arduous month in December 1996 and part of January 1997, Carolyn Garcia was living on the Bolinas Lagoon at Stinson Beach with her old friend Caroline "Goldie" Rush and commuting to the Marin County Court House in San Rafael. So that kind of separated me. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. Were proud of them and we want to share the best of what California has to offer. One of their cats was killed. And his nuts were actually well-educated college students with athletic prowess mostly pretty, athletic people." !KLCC Staff at Sky High Brewing in Corvallis, PublishedFebruary 10, 2017 at 6:00 AM PST. "There was something that needed to be done and when you got all these people together, it was suddenly possible to do it. "That was my golden destination.". With the New York trip done, he was planning what he called a "Prankster Farewell Party," a send-off for those who now had to return to their jobs and lives. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". It's still owned by Sunshine and the Kesey family. "I didn't witness it," he says carefully, "but I heard from (one of her best friends) that Garcia pursued her with a focus that could not be broken. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. It never happened. I was into hip-hopI went out and forged my own life totally anonymously. He left a third of his estate to his wife of three months, Deborah Koons Garcia, but had a herd of creditors in his wake (including Mountain Girl) and the value of his estate in dispute. "Well," he replied, "you must be Mountain Girl. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. ", She and Kesey were "mutually attracted." I was very much in love with Jerry's music and supported it, but our personal relationship was sort of outside that. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. I had heard rumors and didn't want to say anything because I knew that it would hurt her very deeply.". Adams felt, as she puts it, "in a juvenile state of admiration for a good writer, for a famous person who is now taking me into his scene.". "I'm the illegitimate love . We partnered with Keen to do a line of shoes, and they have been supporting HeadCount through the Vote Love campaign, which is a get-out-the-vote campaign that were also working on. It can be nice, but I should also point out that it has definitely worked against some people. "Jerry and I had a fortunate relationship. She wrote about the ride, and reads it to me: Meanwhile, fumbling in his pocket, he produces a handful of pills, and an assortment of newspaper clippings and matches. Chuck dan Sue Kesey mengharapkan sekitar 5. He put the mojo on me. "We mustered the instruments up on the roof thinking to lead a parade to the Cow Palace. My relationship with him had to do more with intellectual companionship rather than a physical relationship, which was really brief. She and Jerry lived off his $50 a week in gig money. Carolyn is such a big, energetic person and you could see, even at 17, the frustration with the mildness in her family situation (along) with the kind of isolation she had and lack of involvement in rough and tumble life. "Ooh man," she told him, "there's something. I want to carry a knife! "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." The Bus, with "Furthur" written like a title across the top. The bassist Phil Lesh considered Mountain Girl "the Prankster Queen," as he wrote in his memoir. It was the summer of 1963. [Laughs.]. ", "Don't kid yourself," says Jon McIntire. Often, it was very difficult. But, for me, its kind of like a meditative practice. [3] She got a job at Stanford University, working for Carl Djerassi in the organic chemistry lab analyzing psychiatric drugs, and she was eventually fired for "dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. The group, she realized, "was his version of the nuthouse. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. Eight months pregnant, Mountain Girl stepped off the Dead's helicopter at Altamont just in time to see Mick Jagger get punched in the head by a concertgoer. With bright blue eyes, blond curly hair, and a wrestler's build, the famous young novelist glowed with authority and mischief. Kesey wasn't dead. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. We also partnered with Tessemaes, which is an eco-conscious salad dressing company. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. Says Rock Scully, the Dead's road manager for many years, "Jerry Garcia was married to his guitar and the muse and his human relationships suffered for it. "I just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' Although Garcia and Adams reconciled after the dissolution of his relationship with Koons in 1977, they stopped cohabiting a year later (save for occasional holiday reunions) due to the guitarist's heroin and cocaine addictions. When she returned, they got together. at Red Rocks Garcia's 75th Bday. 21 aot 2022. in Divertissement, musik. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. Garcia and Adams separated in 1975 after he began a relationship with filmmaker Deborah Koons. Jerry Garcia She'd also just lost her job, and was going broke. She'd hitched a ride out west with her older brother, Don, determined to leave square old Poughkeepsie far in the rearview. He came and went for the next year." "We were delighted. She opted out of the Grateful Dead scene for the sake of her three little girls, Sunshine Kesey, her daughter with Ken Kesey, and Annabelle and Theresa Garcia, her children with Jerry Garcia. Mountain Girl found the celebrated writer, who was 29, to be dynamic, intelligent, and playful. But as the Dead began putting out records, Garcia spent most of the time on tour. The windows are busted. Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. "I was a total tomboy. "I'm so glad to see you!" [1] The family had a house in San Rafael, California, as well as a beach house in Stinson Beach, California.[7]. That was sort of my style, to ask the really tough questions right away.". But Jerry had up and died. I also enjoy smoking weed around people who I dig. Despite their open relationship, he was jealous. "Everybody was really depressed. I'll go through with my heels at your hungry ribs.". "It'll ruin my calluses if I do the dishes,' he told me. The dealers were out there spreading bad, bad shit, telling them it was LSD, and it would be some nasty tranq from the nuthouse.". "Leaper?" "I went down for a long time." "You could come stay with me," he said. He was clean out of necessity. There are a lot of people like that. On April 3, Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael Dufficy handed down a 10-page decision stating that the one-paragraph agreement drafted by Garcia and Mountain Girl is a valid contract and legally binds the estate. But she embraced it nonetheless. "It wasn't (about) any one person," she says. And frankly, I'm glad we didn't, because I think if we'd fought it out too much, we would have lost each other. Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. "He was kind of a wreck. The machine was down. The battle between Mountain Girl and the woman some people secretly call "Dark Deborah" or the "Black Widow" has a long and difficult history going back more than 20 years. He was one of these people where the first time you see him, he's kind of personable, and then the next time, he's starting to disintegrate.". "[4] Journalist Tom Wolfe described his first impression of a teenage Adams as "a tall girl, big and beautiful with dark brown hair falling down to her shoulders except that the lower two-thirds of her falling hair looks like a paintbrush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico. There was a gentleness and a simplicity about him. As it was, he always knew he could come home and there would always be a place for him, no matter how weird it got out there. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. Tracks Festival Fever K.C. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. She was very bright, very fast. He could see the musical notes, he told her. She gave birth in the charity ward of a Mexican hospital in May 1966. But unbeknownst to the guys, she was taking notes. Im so stoked that we found professionals who were already successful in other markets. By then she was five months pregnant. GarciaLive Volume 19: October 31st, 1992 Oakland Coliseum Arena showcases Garcia's return to the stage with the Jerry Garcia Band following a second major health crisis. So Ive gotten much smaller. Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. At Stanford University, researchers were exploring the potential of psychedelic drugs. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. Before the lawyer finally disappeared, Mountain Girl shooed him off her front porch with a small child's broom, smacking him over the head. "I think there was a realistic amount of sexual activity up there," Garcia says, "but it was certainly not out of bounds or weird or anything like that. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. As most suspected, it was yet another prank. "I'm so glad to see you!" "I was mind-boggled and yet, there it was, happening inside my head." Like her, he was looking for family. You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. She affected black turtlenecked sweaters and carried books of poetry. "Girls didn't have as much personal freedom as boys did," she remembers. "It was written all over his face. They just fell in love. "He was crazy and he'd been to too many Dead shows," she says. She was born on February 2, 1970 Annabelle is a member of the Garcia Family LLC, of which she has been active from 2009 to date, and the company's goal is to do the best for Annabelle's father's music and visions.She has an older half-sister by the name of Sunshine Kesey, who was born in 1966 Annabelle Garcia's family, husband and children It's a piece of my childhood. "Ken was upset that I hooked up with Jerry," she says. They're like a couple of grumpy bears who just woke up in the spring. [6], She had a relationship with another Prankster named George Walker, who would become her husband in 1966. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. She tried to get in the door but a tree had grown up and blocked her passage. After. Adams was 19, dark-haired, big-eyed, and broken-hearted, consoling herself over a double espresso and ice cream after her boyfriend had abruptly split town. In the course of a few months, some 100,000 young people from all over the world descended on Haight-Ashbury to get high and make love and protest the war. When it appeared that he would survive, she and the girls moved in with him in San Rafael and for six months, she had the family life she had always wanted. "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. When the Summer of Love devolved into a plague of bad drug trips and homeless teenagers, Mountain Girl and Garcia set out to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. I had no idea what he was doing. I walked over to look, amazed. "Bill serves her. "I'm not sorry about it particularly," she said. The resurgence of life. But I went for it. That was what was available, & it is still the best. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. And her beauty. I went to the San Francisco Art Institute because my dad had a history there, and I was kind of looking for direction when I was younger. "Marijuana is an ancient plant, cultivated for centuries all over the world for rope & papermaking, for its oil, resin, & seeds," she writes in her memoir. I actually call her and harass her about it pretty often. She arrived in California, like many at the time, eager to bloom. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. This year it also served as a major platform for charitable endeavors. Tidak ada hasil . ", The trial was "an unexpected development," she says, as she sits in her rural kitchen. "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. It was like opting to be an alien. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. A buxom, big-boned woman wearing green velvet pull-on pants, a shapeless black wool sweater and a voluminously floppy, long black coat, Mountain Girl is a force of nature - difficult to ignore when she's under sail. "I love that bus! Eventually, the rest of the Pranksters loaded themselves onto Furthur and trekked down to Manzanillo, where they lived in a small rancho with a red and white checkerboard roof. She refused to rat her hair or wear makeup. "Grateful Dead star's death leads to battle where it's GARCIA VS. GARCIA". The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. "He knew it was going to cause trouble." Dawn was breaking as they arrived at a ranch in La Honda. Before Garcia died of a heart attack in a dry-out facility in Forest Knolls on Aug. 9, 1995, he'd already paid Mountain Girl their agreed-upon $20,883 per month for a period of 18 months. She realigns her shoulders and runs her large hands through a luxuriant mop of silver and black hair. The band, which was making waves in the Haight but hadn't yet recorded an album, shared a rambling Victorian on 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. Chips and Twinkies. "He was just the guitar player," she says. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. I just had to go with it. I just ran my life that way and it mostly worked out.". So I will say that sampling the product is a huge perk of the gig for me. Both of them could be among the most open people I've ever run across.". I was floored. He is her "handmaiden.' Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. No Result . Despite the free-love ethos of the Sixties, she could feel the tension her affair with Kesey generated in the group. For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". "There was a star they could look at who had to hide out. "It was the end of their chapter," Adams says, "and the beginning of mine." she recalls with a laugh. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom fashioned themselves as the hypermasculine heroes of their own stories. I did try to run their sound board for a while, but I wasn't good at it. I understood men at that point." Special Thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Counsel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and David Keady At Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish, Bill Orner, AND A VERY SPECIAL THANK . In her senior year of high school, she got expelled for sneaking into the boys locker room to see their new Nautilus machine. "You know, we lost him out of our family. Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. My sister Anabelle has a popular Instagram handle, and she loves sharing her art. The court case turned into a high-profile free-for-all, with Koons Garcia's side claiming that Jerry had stopped loving Carolyn years before, that their marriage on New Year's Eve, 1981, was a sham and had been for tax purposes only and that in circumventing the legal system, their agreement was basically not worth the paper it was written on. But when the day arrived, the crowd of 300,000 grew increasingly unruly as the Hells Angels, who had been brought in to provide security, grew increasingly drunk. You could feel it. He's dead. Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 People were just sleeping on the street in their shorts in the San Francisco fog, and getting terribly chilled. "I really would have liked to have gone," she says, "but I didn't have any way to go.". The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. As someone with an artistic background and skill set, to what extent do you like to get involved in different aesthetic decisions relative to that venue or any of your familys collaborative projects? Kesey describes that first meeting with a literary allusion: "Vonnegut's phrase a "karass' comes to mind. "The intellectual challenges of being a part of my family were certainly evenly shared by everybody, regardless of sex. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. After splitting with Walker, she took up with Jerry Garcia, but they did not marry for many years after. ", One night in San Francisco, four months after the Beatles show, Kesey and Mountain Girl were up on the roof of a home in Telegraph Hill, smoking a joint. "It took the edge off me, to be carrying a kid," she says. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. The quote from Trixie in Long Strange Trip about her "knowing not to . KLCCs Tiffany Eckert speaks to Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Ken Kesey, about their family life, Keseys wrestling start at Springfield High School and his indelible mark on a generation. ", And so Mountain Girl became a handmaiden to genius, a term she calls "horrible, but true." She sampled ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive being studied by the researchers she worked with. She was turning a corner so fast, she was leaning down, close to parallel with the pavement on this windy, twisty mountain road, her long, black hair flying out behind her, lookin' good. There wasn't a whole lot I could do to go chasing around worrying to see what had happened to Jerry. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. I was way upset. It was more than just hormones and the passion of new love that kept Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia together. The paint is faded. Its part of what I want to share with othersthat whole inner freedom and expansiveness. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" "The first time I saw her, she was riding a 175 Honda motorcycle, driving east on La Honda Road. View All Result . When her boss found her slumped over her desk the next morning, he fired her. When it comes to celebrity branding or whatever you want to call it, Paul Newman created a great model to work from in terms of contributing to charity. Independence. It's so sad.". A A. "I didn't want to compete for attention," admits Mountain Girl. Adams was offered a job in the Stanford cafeteria, but drawing on her knowledge of science she hustled one in the organic-chemistry lab instead. "Well," she says, "I wasn't a musician. The Sunshine Kesey Interview - YouTube 0:00 / 3:57 The Sunshine Kesey Interview Jake Feinberg Show 2.14K subscribers Subscribe 15 646 views 1 year ago Natural Expression by Sunshine Kesey. "I never did any therapy about it, but I've read all the books.". Now 76, with shoulder-length gray hair and black-framed glasses, she's reading me an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, which she just dug out of an old brown box. I just didn't want to compete anymore. I was flabbergasted. Throughout his adventures, he had always come back to Mountain Girl. Meanwhile, Mountain Girl took her three girls to Oregon. He stood there eyeing her up her long dark hair, her big bright smile the latest Alice to have fallen through the rabbit hole. I know they had a big love with one another. Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. She'd fled her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters. One thing that he did not want was any disclosure. "My heart opened," she says. The gray-haired woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Jerry, is his 45-year-old daughter, Trixie. As the Dead began putting out records and touring, Mountain Girl, who had a child to raise, began feeling the strain. Retired Prankster Lee Quanstrom, a Santa Cruz-based journalist, has vivid memories of Mountain Girl. It was a toxic environment. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. Before we talk about more recent developments, can you share your thoughts on Port Chester, N.Y.s Garcias, which opened more than seven years ago? He certainly had me buffaloed on the dishwashing thing. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved. The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. Late one night, alone in the Stanford lab, she decided to try some other interesting stuff. What the hell is going on? Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia (ne Adams; born May 7, 1946), also known as Mountain Girl, is an American Merry Prankster and the former wife of Jerry Garcia, the lead vocalist and guitar player with the American rock band, Grateful Dead . "She didn't say anything of any note except to acknowledge my presence. She was judge and jury in those days. How could you do that? "We felt guilty at having called for this." "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. "It was fall. But in the six months they'd been gone, something had changed. That was his happiest space. The previously unreleased complete performance is mastered from John Cutler's original soundboard recordings. Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. "It was awful," Mountain Girl says. Her parents, Ruth and Alfred, prized knowledge over material possessions and she grew up the tomboy little sister of two older brothers whose excellence in academics and athletics challenged and frustrated her. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. [1] She attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. PLEASANT HILL, Oregon - "Come on and see The Bus," ordered Mountain Girl over her shoulder as she rushed hell-for-leather down the back steps of Ken Kesey's red barn home. Mountain Girl had already had one abortion, during which she vividly recalls tripping on ketamine, which was used as sedative. During this period, he rekindled his relationship with Koons, who had been largely out of his life since the late 1970s; they would ultimately marry in February 1994. Had a quick mind - quick on the pickup with puns, jokes and comments. Mountain Girl and Jerry moved into an apartment of their own, and she got pregnant again. Initially. The cleanliness of life which people around him discouraged pretty quickly. Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. The Dead was scheduled as the final act, but the band never took the stage. Shes @bluebelle42 on Instagram. Readers have been afforded plenty of accounts of riding shotgun with Cassady, but never from the perspective of a hitchhiking woman. "She is the real deal.". "I wasn't a hundred percent Ken's girlfriend," she says. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' "There are things that can happen to people. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." For years, it felt like it was just this mournful periodthere was this malaise and everyone was just so bummed out. It hadn't been running for a very long time. However out of step she had felt among the kids back home, she now found her place among the generation's leading artists, writers, and radicals: Timothy Leary ("I thought he was kind of an actor he was busy playing a role"), Albert Hoffmann, the chemist who discovered LSD ("a saint and a mystic, and a gay man, just a sweetheart"), Hunter S. Thompson ("an important guy for the country"). And that level of his dedication really fired everybody. They rebooted their commune around him, reassuming their established roles. As far as I know, it went boom! So when a guy named Bradley and his fast-talking friend Neal approached her at the caf and offered her a lift, she decided to see where the adventure would lead. And now, The Bus was retired. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom. That was my big goal as a child. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. "Everybody loved it that those guys were back together again," says Rush. You mentioned your mom [Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, one of the original Merry Pranksters]. Read more Discourse stories here. The world of celebrity branding can be kind of a gross place, which is why were careful with selecting our partners, she adds, Were not interested in crappy microwave color-changing Elvis cups. A large mandala is painted on the living-room floor. Adams, who had been a bus monitor in elementary school, had a soft spot for the rides, especially a vintage 1939 International Harvester like this one. And she wanted to help that greatness.". But there was one glaring problem. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia were the stuff of hippie fairy tales, who dressed alike and thought alike and spoke as one person. She had short hair she'd dyed blonde. She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. "She never defined it as shit. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. "I wanted to stay with my Prankster buddies. Loves sharing her art any disclosure, came to the guys, she had living-room.! 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