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Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like

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Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. She fled her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the Merry Pranksters. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men.

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Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like

She was a teenage girl surrounded by older men, from the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead. Now, for the first time, Jerry Garcia's widow tells her own story, and it's even wilder than we knew.

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