Jun. 27 – X no longer marks the spot for the Manson Family.

Three former Manson girls — Ruth Ann (Ouish) Morehouse, Catherine (Gypsy) Share and Kitty Lutesinger — have in recent months sought to erase the “Manson insignia” from their foreheads through plastic surgery.

The X’s were etched on their foreheads during the 1969 Tate murder trial shortly after their leader, Charles Manson, carved the crude letter above the bridge of his nose.

Now the X and the Family appear to be fading away. Plastic surgery is not all that former Family followers are going through in an attempt to erase their infamous past with Manson.

Two of the more violent Family members have taken on new names, new life-styles and new jobs in Carson City, Nev. Only a few close friends know of their past association with violence and death.

“We don’t want to talk about those days,” one said. “That was our past. We have our future.”

Still others from the Family are scattered across the country. Some have continued lawless ways for new gangs. But Gypsy, Ouish and Kitty have cleaned up their acts — and their foreheads.

Miss Share, now 33, came to the United States after being orphaned in France and served 3.5 years in prison for her part in an August 1971, holdup of a southwest Los Angeles gun store.

It was an abortive attempt to get enough weapons to break Manson out of jail.

Miss Share and her longtime boyfriend and Manson associate, Kenneth Como, 36, were married inside the walls of California’s Folsom Prison three months ago. Como is serving a 20-year term on six felony convictions. They were married by a mail-order Universal Life Church minister.

Miss Share was paroled in March 1975.

At that time, she was approached by various Family associates who wanted her to contact Lynette Fromme, who had taken the helm of the clan. But she refused.

“Enough is enough,” she said.

Miss Fromme didn’t give up. She continued to write Gypsy and others, rarely receiving answers.

Gypsy now is attempting to regain custody of her 4-year-old son and reconstruct her career as a singer. She is living under another name in Los Angeles.

As for Ruth Ann (Ouish) Morehouse, the story is similar. Ouish (supposedly the sound a knife makes penetrating skin) served 101 days in prison for her part in a 1970 LSD-hamburger caper in which she fed the laced sandwich to a fellow Manson follower, Barbara Hoyt, in an attempt to dissuade her from testifying against Manson in the Tate trial.

Ouish was charged with conspiracy to commit murder but the charge later was reduced to conspiring to dissuade a witness from testifying.

Morehouse did not show up for the sentencing; instead — nine months pregnant at the time — she fled to Carson City to live with her sister.

When she was finally arrested last October in Sacramento, Calif., near the apartment where Lyn Fromme lived before she tried to kill President Ford, a superior court judge released her, saying the 101 days she spent in jail was enough time.

While living in Sacramento, Ouish was asked by the Fromme-Good combine to rejoin the Family.

They called Miss Morehouse’s sister several times in Nevada and insisted that Morehouse had to come back with the Family.

She now lives in Reno, Nev., has since been married and divorced and had a child. She also has changed her name.

“I had enough; I’m glad it’s over,” she said.

Another publicity-shy Mansonite is Kitty Lutesinger, 24, who now lives in Van Nuys, Calif., under another name and takes care of her 5-year-old daughter fathered by Robert Beausoleil, another Manson follower.

Kitty is studying to be a school-teacher at a nearby college.

She recently visited two cosmetic surgeons to have the X removed from her forehead. Of her experience with the Family and Manson:

“We were just gooney bird kids; things got out of control.”