Civkulis, Inese: - Inese Civkulis was born to Latvian parents in a Munich refugee camp and raised in Nebraska. After graduating valedictorian from her 1966 high school class, she dropped out of Northwestern and moved to California to be with the love of her life. Their adventures ended eight years later but her memories, skewed by speed, were tucked away with tabs in the far reaches of her mind. Inese eventually earned an M.A. in linguistics, taught for several years, and ran an upscale catering business. Sharing a pile of string-bound letters with Roberta rekindled Inese's hippie trail memories. They mined the pages for guidelines and filled in the parts Inese hadn't dared write home about. In the end, Inese provided the gems; Roberta polished and strung them together.