Ashley "Ash" Collins is RENT's Tom Collins' adopted little sister. She fled to California at eighteen and no one had heard a word from her, now she is back in New York, without really telling a soul. She is an aspiring author, who works at Kraze, a bar that is next to the Life Cafe. Ash has had a bit of a bad past, and she tends to struggle to overcome that, but she seems to manage it every time bad thoughts come back. Friends are the cure to sadness.

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Ash took a deep breath as she walked out from the hospital, she finally could move her hand, it was just weird. Her rib was deemed to be healed, and she was one piece again. And happy to be that way. She wandered happily down the street, looking for something to do, she had to work that night, it would be nice to get back to the club. But she had a lot of time on her hands until then.