A Legend In His Own Minefield

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I Was a Teenaged Hippie!

I Was a Teenaged Hippie!

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John Mendelssohn
Jan 20, 2010
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I Was a Teenaged Hippie!
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The first person I’d ever heard use the word hippie was a kindred spirit in the astronomy class I took my first year of college because I was an idiot and didn’t realize it would involve a lot of physics, for which I’d found out that I had no knack whatever my senior year in high school. Bill Wolfe looked pretty outrageous by the standards of the day, a…

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