Better Living Through Group Chemistry—Asterisk

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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