While touring in Texas with the Steve Miller Band in 1969, David spent three days in a Holiday Inn in with a waitress named Marie.  A few months later when he returned home to San Francisco,  Marie was on his door step.  Three months later,  David was living with her, her mother Stella, her two young hellion brothers, Chuck and Junior, “a poor family from across the tracks” in San Antonio, 21 dogs and cats in a two room flat in Walnut Creek, going on and off the road with the band.