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  1. 11-27-2015, 07:04 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by allegro View Post
    Go Ask Alice, man I loved that book when I was a 'tween in the early-70s, a cautionary tale that made absolutely no difference to me LOL except it turned me on to "She's Leaving Home" by the Beatles.
    i was maybe 19 or 20 when i read it the first time. in one sitting on my grandparent's front porch. at the time it wasn't cautionary for me, it was an aspiration of sorts. now it's bittersweet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ldopa View Post
    i was maybe 19 or 20 when i read it the first time. in one sitting on my grandparent's front porch. at the time it wasn't cautionary for me, it was an aspiration of sorts. now it's bittersweet.
    Wow, yeah, it was INTENDED to be a cautionary tale but nearly everybody I know who read it (seems to be mostly females), myself included, went on to do acid. So it actually gave us romantic ideas about acid? And running away from home? Who knows. Its author is no longer anonymous, as we know the author to be Beatrice Sparks.

    I still have this 1971 tattered yellowed paperback on my shelves:
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