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Krystal Frost – Part I
Married • Missoula, Montana • Owner/Operator Body and Sol
Krystal Frost was a baby boomer flower child raised in the California desert. Born in Bakersfield in 1954, her dad was an ophthalmologist who moved Krystal, her bank officer mother, and two brothers to Palm Desert, where she graduated from high school at the tender age of 15. After receiving her diploma, she heads to San Francisco the epicenter of her movement to join like minded flower children during that famous summer of Woodstock. Soon tiring of that scene, she migrated farther up the coast to cool, rainy British Columbia for the rest of the summer.
When that summer of peace and love came to an end, Krystal moved east and enrolled at the University of Toronto. She studied anthropology and history for two years and gave birth to her first son before returning to British Columbia to finish her anthropology degree at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Following graduation, she applied for graduate school at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, and was accepted, even though she spoke no Spanish. She left her son with her parents in California and then flew to Bogota to begin her graduate program.
Six months after Krystal started graduate school, she saw what she thought was an easy way to make ten thousand dollars, so she took an offer to become a drug carrier a “mule” to transport cocaine to the United States. She was caught at the airport and spent the next two years in a Columbian prison for woman. “I never was into drugs myself, other tan the normal experimentation all kids did at the time,” Krystal admits.
“They say that any dealings with cocaine is bad karma. There were a few other English-speaking women in the prison, so we all banded together. It was like something straight out of the movie Midnight Express. I was only the second person convicted of that crime in Colombia. At that time, they usually just slapped your hands and deport you, but this was during Nixon’s War on Crime,’ so they made an example of me.” After her release from prison, Krystal worked at the U.S Embassy in Bogota for a year, specializing in helping distressed Americans, which included contact with Americans held in Columbian prisons.
Loving Latin America’s rich and diverse cultures, Krystal decided to travel the continent to see what living was like in the different South American countries. Now fluent in Spanish, she started in Argentina and held a variety of jobs there and in Peru and Ecuador. “I spent eight years in South American during an interesting but politically insecure time. I studied in several of the countries and had a wide variety of jobs that included workings as a waitress, modeling, theater, and work as an interpreter at American embassies”. During her sojourn in Latin America, Krystal’s son and father often would join her during vacations.
Krystal has always been drawn to Latin cultures. “When I was a child, I used to have a vision of myself as this Little Brown person, wearing a long skirt and huaraches, named Maria. When I played with other little girls, I would become Maria. Maybe I was Maria in a past life.”
In 1981 Krystal and her alter ego Maria returned to California t olive with her parents and son.
She worked in her dad’s office for a year but then started getting restless again. Her former college roommate was now the president of Hearts Films in Los Angeles and was working on a movie being shot in Montana called Walks Far Woman, which starred Raquel Welch. She offered Krystal a job as an assistant director, and son she was in Billings, Montana. The film was shot on the Crow Indian Reservation south of Billings. Krystal’s job as an anthropologist was to work with the local indigenous people. She got to know and admire one of the Crow families the Buffalo Bulltails- during the shoot. The women invited her to their home and then to their sweat lodge a form of ritual sauna.
While she and the other women were purifying their bodies, the mother of the family asked if she would like to meet one of her boys. John Frost and Krystal were immediately attracted to each other, soon married, and had two daughters. Email to a friend.
Will continue next month…
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