Dammann and her partner, Nancy (Fu) Schroeder, the abiding
abbess at Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach, had long stopped being romantic partners, but agreed to stay together to co-parent their wheelchair - bound daughter Sabrina, Isabel Allende's step - granddaughter, whom they adopted as an infant — born drug addicted and with cerebral palsy, and not expected to live long.
They were educated
at convent schools, could rise to become prioresses or
abbesses of great houses and were numbered amongst the scholars, Saints, mystics and martyrs of the church.