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14. Summers 1973

Wed Jun 24, 2026, 09:07 PM

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This song was a soundtrack for the time, one of many. I was 20 and headed off to Berkeley for Cal in January 1974. Lived in a camp trailer on a 54 acres parcel on a Wild and Scenic River that was a CCC camp in the 1930s. We both worked for the US Forest Service. Had a 1956 Willy's jeep. Lived with my first serious love. We went to Berkeley and San Francisco to look for a place to live and saw the Dead at Winterland.

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