Deep Throat's Daughter, The Kindred Free Spirit

Since 1990, she has also taught Spanish at Santa Rosa Junior College. Periodically, she also teaches high school students and social workers.

Her friends at Sonoma State know Felt as a diligent, admired, well-respected and organized lecturer. Because she does not have a PhD in her field, she cannot be on a tenure track.

An avid reader, she shares her literary discoveries and impressions with colleagues. She gave "The Secret Life of Bees" (a novel about a girl who believes she killed her own mother) to the department's administrative assistant, Dolores Bainter, and urged her to pass it along when she'd read it.

Her colleagues also know her as health-conscious, a vegetarian who prepares grand salads and often brings them in for lunch. She even requires that her wine be organic, recalls Elizabeth Martinez, a good friend and chair of the Chicano and Latino Studies Department at Sonoma State.

For her three sons, says Martinez, Felt likes to cook and celebrate their birthdays with special dishes.

As for Felt's past as a commune dweller, revealed in the Vanity Fair article -- well, that was something new to her colleagues. Toczyski called it an "Oh" moment, a "surprising" thing to learn.

But Martinez, who also did not know, says, "I'll tell you the truth: All of the longtime professors, they've all been counterculture or hippie-connected from years ago."

Little is publicly known about Felt's life between 1972 and 1990. Whether she has been married or is divorced is not clear. In addition to Nick Jones, the law student, she has two other sons: Rob Jones, 27; and Will Felt, 31, a musician.

While at the commune, the 1974 birth of her eldest son was recorded for a documentary called "The Birth of Ludi." The purpose of the documentary is unknown. The episode was described in the Vanity Fair article.

It also described Felt's parents visiting her and finding her sitting naked in the sun while breastfeeding her baby.

Back in the 1970s and '80s, when Mark Felt was at the FBI and lived with his wife in Fairfax, he was very much immersed in the status of high government service; and very much immersed in Watergate, as was much of official Washington.

People from Wynford Drive later speculated on whether Felt was Deep Throat. When asked, he denied it.