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lesley ®

06/29/2017, 19:40:40
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I have been listening to the songs - The Animals, The Doors, The Rolling Stones - what a collection, and it reminded me too of how I thought and felt and really it is summed up in the slogan Make love not war that comes through so strongly in those songs and the videos with them, I really felt like that.  
 
I remember seeing the odd Vietnam vet in the corner of the room getting tanked and looking like they were caught in a storm and I was too young to understand what it was like for them.

At 18 I went and studied ceramics and I was in the kiln room, it was time to go home but I was watching the kiln and maybe it was getting close to temperature I don't remember but the teacher came in and I remember how he'd checked, and was about to go when he groaned and slid down the wall til he was sitting on the floor in front of the kiln where I was.  He told me he was a vet from the Korean war (I didn't even know what that was at the time) and he told me he had been walking through a village and heard a noise and got very scared and started shooting and then he saw it was an old lady with a donkey - poor man, I started to understand a little bit.

So yes, soon after that I was safely hoovered up into Prem's bubble of delusion but I never lost that sense of the way forward that we shared as a generation - make love not war - you could just about say that's why I became a premie, as soon as I realised Rawat was a fakester, I walked.   

So tho we were in a cult I still feel that we were a good bunch of people in the main and maybe from my perspective anyway, the best.  make love not war was a good call.

Tho I have to say my little group of grannies yesterday said the worst thing the young women of our generation faced up to was the free sex thing that came with it.  






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