Deep Throat's Daughter, The Kindred Free Spirit

He and Audrey are remembered mostly as fixtures at the annual Kentucky Derby parties thrown by a neighbor with Louisville roots. The partygoers would watch the race on TV and drink mint juleps.

Before each party, the Felts sent a bouquet to the hosts. And even after his wife died in 1984, says neighbor Christine Pike Dean, Felt continued to send the bouquets, still signed from Mark and Audrey.

Loraine True, another neighbor, recalls that Joan Felt, the daughter from out of town, attended one of the Derby parties. She was memorable for her beautiful red large-brimmed hat, her slim frame and pale complexion.

Linda Cohen, a niece of the couple who threw the Derby parties, says she remembers Audrey had been upset by Joan's refusal to accept the family silver, thus breaking a family tradition.

Joan, to these neighbors, was "sort of bohemian," says Cohen. "Mark and Audrey had concerns about the daughter. She was quite different, but the son was quite normal and quite reliable."

The son, William Mark Felt Jr., was in the Air Force, where he retired in 1990 as a lieutenant colonel. Efforts to contact him for this article were fruitless. He has remained mum throughout the tumult surrounding his father's revelation.

Mark Felt Sr. ultimately retired and moved to Santa Rosa in 1990, where he and Joan took up residence on Redford Place in a quiet middle-class neighborhood that in recent weeks has become perhaps the best known cookie-cutter subdivision in the nation.

There, he lives in a garage renovated as residential quarters. Because he uses a walker, this ground-level arrangement makes it easier for him to enter the house without navigating stairs, says a former home health aide, Atama Batisaresare.

A former Fijian army corporal and U.N. peacekeeper in global hot spots, Batisaresare worked for the Felts for nine months beginning in December 2001, after Mark Felt's stroke that year. He said he left for a different position. He now cares for an elderly man near Petaluma, a town just south of Santa Rosa.

Batisaresare spoke fondly of the Felts, saying of Mark Felt, "Oh, I love him" and "He's a good guy, that guy."

O'Connor, the Felt family lawyer, asked Batisaresare to sign a confidentiality agreement that would prevent him from speaking about the Felt family. But it remained unsigned when Batisaresare showed the letter to this reporter several days ago. He said he didn't think he would sign it.

The May 19, 2005, letter, on stationery from O'Connor's San Francisco law firm -- Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin -- explained that Batisaresare could earn up to $1,000 if he participated in a Felt book or film project for which Felt was paid $20,000 or more.