Things I Thought I Knew About My Mom?

My first thoughts as to how the interview went: Amazing. Pretty good considering this was an interview done in the car on our way to Ithaca; my Mom taking me back to school from fall break. There were things that i was hoping for that I didn't get. I was hoping for more of a political stance from her. She admittedly was not as into the protest movement as much as she was the culture of hippie living in the 70s and 80s. She loved the music, the lifestyle, the drugs, the clothes, but the politics of it just didn't concern her much. That's ok though, better that one is honest about it. Honestly, I'm sure that most hippies back then thought like that, but getting involved in protests and politics was just part of the image, so they had to go along with it.
Anyways, I don't really care that she didn't have much to say about politics because she gave me one of the most interesting youth stories I have ever heard. In fact, it was kind of strange that I knew nothing of this before and was casually told in the car on the way back to college. What I didn't know was that my Mom was married to a hippie in Colorado for seven years. I didn't know that she lived in an apartment where all they owned were a bean bag and a stereo. Oh, and of course, a lot of weed. My Mom basically gave me the story of someone who lived what was the most fun during one's college years, but when it was time to be an adult in the years after college, she was trapped; trapped with addiction, trapped with hippies, and trapped with a husband that wanted her to move to Oregon with him to join a cult-like commune and study some weird hippie book. I don't want to give too much away. I hope that some of you or anyone that's reading this may actually read the interview...once it's finished that is. I have to put the whole thing together because right now, I have are the raw things that my Mom said. I'm actually in a bit of trouble, apparently it was a requirement to record the interview, not just an option. Oh well, what's done is done, I'll have to figure something out. But wow, hell of an interview..