In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen .

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— Tom Robbins

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— Robin Williams

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The house doesn't matter. My daughter and dog are fine. That's all that matters. We're safe â€” that's all that matters.

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