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I post here another longform interview which my subscribers have asked for. I have posted clips from her interview previously. As many of you know, back in 1989, my team and I did almost 200 interviews with Americans who had lived through and experienced the 1960s. This woman's thoughtful interview stood out for me. So real. So poignant. So personal. So well spoken. About 3% of the baby boomers considered themselves hippies (at most). This woman was unquestionably a hippie and live that lifestyle until she found Jesus and became a Christian. I appreciate her candor and clarity and do not share her name without her permission, which I do not have. My younger subscriber commentators sometimes ascribe behaviors to the hippies which are incorrect. They seem to call everyone who looked like a hippie a hippie but the hippie lifestyle was uniquely different from the political radicals of that time, the kids growing up who grew their hair long and wore beads, etc. I was a working professional filmmaker in the 1960s and never engaged in the hippie lifestyle although I knew some of my colleagues who did. They "dropped out." I had a child and was married and was building my film company. When I came across hippies who one occasion, still lived in the cities, their lifestyle frightens me as I did not really understand it. But when I was making my documentary series for television, Making Sense Of The Sixties in 1990, I came to interview folks like this woman and to understand what they felt and how they lived better.