The pace of change was accelerating.\u00a0 Our President was assassinated.\u00a0 The Beatles landed in America.\u00a0 Vietnam is still on the back burner but the heat\u00a0was being turned up.<\/p>\n
To the horror of barbershops everywhere guys are letting the hair grow long. \u00a0Why? To make a statement against the establishment and conformity, and the\u00a0girls\u00a0loved\u00a0it. \u00a0But mostly because\u00a0the girls\u00a0loved it.<\/p>\n
I remember when my Father said one day “well, think it’s time for a haircut?” I replied no. He was ok with it.\u00a0 It wasn’t a hill he wanted to fight on.<\/p>\n
Of course I bought Beatle albums with my allowance.\u00a0 A birthday or Christmas present ( I don’t remember which) was a new “Stereo record player” to play them on.<\/p>\n
One\u00a0night I was at my friend “B’s” house.\u00a0 We were listening to “Buffalo Springfield’s first album. He brought out some thick gummy stuff that he said he got from his older brother who had a friend who was in the army ( I think that’s what it was, so long ago).\u00a0 He produced a pipe with aluminum foil in it,\u00a0 stuck a few pinholes,\u00a0 placed the black gummy stuff in, lit it, \u00a0inhaled and passed it to me.\u00a0 My first time I got high.<\/p>\n
High school was next.<\/p>\n
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The pace of change was accelerating.\u00a0 Our President was assassinated.\u00a0 The Beatles landed in America.\u00a0 Vietnam is still on the back burner but the heat\u00a0was being turned up. To the horror of barbershops everywhere guys are letting the hair grow long. \u00a0Why? To make a statement against the establishment and conformity, and the\u00a0girls\u00a0loved\u00a0it. \u00a0But mostly …<\/p>\n