Better Living Through Group Chemistry—Asterisk
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Inside the San Francisco group house scene.
Better Living Through Group Chemistry—Asterisk Inside the San Francisco group house scene. In 1968, fresh off the Summer of Love, Joan Didion’s “ Slouching Towards Bethlehem ” introduced Americans to new forms of group living that were beginning to take place in the Bay Area. The essay’s most famous vignette was of a preschool-aged child given LSD by her parents. It closed with the indelible image of a single mother trying to stop her three-year-old from burning down the house, while her roommates retrieved “some very good Moroccan hash which had dropped down through a floorboard damaged in th
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