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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Rainbow Valentine, and I grew up in an

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Speaker 1: idyllic world in northern California. My childhood was filled with

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Speaker 1: gardens playing in abundance. Most of my worries were centered

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Speaker 1: on whether or not I'd ever get a star in

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Speaker 1: the musical Annie. When I was fourteen years old, my

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Speaker 1: older sister told me the family secret. Our parents were

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Speaker 1: able to pay for this idyllic life because my dad

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Speaker 1: was a pot smuggler. I was forbidden to talk to

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Speaker 1: my parents about their smuggling career. I remember my dad

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Speaker 1: driving me home from the airport in college. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to broach the subject, but when I did, my dad

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Speaker 1: abruptly pulled over, slammed on the brakes, and well, I'll

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Speaker 1: let him tell you what happened. I remember very much,

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Speaker 1: stopping the car and saying to you, it is critical

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Speaker 1: that you never speak of this to anyone ever, because

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Speaker 1: more than any being Bruce Lip. But it's now been

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Speaker 1: more than twenty years since then, and my parents are

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Speaker 1: finally willing to tell me about their lives as counterculture outlaws.

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Speaker 1: My mom and dad both grew up in the world

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Speaker 1: of the counterculture, with rock and roll, pot acid art,

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Speaker 1: and free love. They were psychedelic pioneers, disillusioned by the

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Speaker 1: Vietnam War and what they considered a repressive nineteen fifties

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Speaker 1: of society. Before that, it was all about suffering, and

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Speaker 1: you have to suffer. And then we decided in the

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Speaker 1: sixties that actually life should be beautiful. They were in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a movement that changed the world, like

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Speaker 1: truly in the middle. My mom took Stanford Acid, dated

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Speaker 1: members of the Great Little Dad gave Janice Joplin her

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Speaker 1: signature for hat. I always for a rabbit for her hat,

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Speaker 1: and so I said, here, where are this? My dad

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Speaker 1: started dealing in New York City, where he was surrounded

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Speaker 1: by some of the finest Nikki, Sunshine, acid and d

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Speaker 1: MT there ever was watch blueberries float by. As the

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Speaker 1: blueberry would float by, it would say blueberry. And the

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Speaker 1: love of adrenaline, whether from getting high, dodging the law,

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Speaker 1: or making huge sums of money, led to a twenty

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Speaker 1: two year long pot smuggling career from California to New York.

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Speaker 1: For the past year, I've been talking to my parents

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Speaker 1: and their friends and their smuggling network about the ups

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Speaker 1: and downs, the thrills, and the incredible risk of their

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Speaker 1: profession and this is the first time they have told

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Speaker 1: anyone about their lives. I'm Rainbow Valentine for my Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio and School of Humans. This is Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter.

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