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You are either on her side, by her side, or in her way.

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Much digital ink has been spilled about the lifting of China’s longstanding one-child policy. Horror at government control of the womb has inspired a rash of tongue-clucking editorials decrying the very idea of state-sponsored population control.

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I can’t go to Trader Joe’s anymore. No more Cheddar Rocket crackers for me. Do you want to know why?

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So, you get your college degree, or drop out, or some amalgamation of both/neither, then ask yourself, what the heck does a hippie do now?

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They are a counterculture that rebels through capitalism.

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I grew up in Northern California and my friends were reggae festival-attending hippies and camo-loving hunters. The first thing you learn when you hang around both, they’re the same effing creature.

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No one is going to want to listen to you if you stink.

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It’s a party in my mouth!

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If you like hip hop, this one’s for you.

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I went to the Village and sat around in Washington Square. Next to me was this good-looking hippie 16-year-old kid. A dirty old man tried to proposition us both. He asked me if the kid was my lover (an interesting idea). Anyway, we lied our heads off to him.