![]() ![]() She meets Steve, who says, “I found love on acid. “We’re just gonna let it all happen,” Jeff says. She meets Jeff and his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Debbie, who has run away from home. She shows him a sign offering a ride to Chicago. Deadeye tells Didion he is looking for a ride to New York City. She met people like Deadeye, a dealer, and his old lady, Gerry, who wrote poetry but gave it up after her guitar was stolen. ![]() Didion hung out mainly with runaways and acidheads. In the summer of 1967, the Haight was a magnet for people looking for a place to do drugs. She and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, had moved from New York City to Southern California three years earlier, and, in March, 1966, they had adopted a daughter and named her Quintana Roo, after an area on the Yucatán Peninsula. Didion was thirty-two, and she had been a magazine writer for eleven years. In the late spring of 1967, Joan Didion, accompanied by a photojournalist named Ted Streshinsky, began making trips from Berkeley, where she was staying, to Haight-Ashbury, to do research for a piece on the hippies for The Saturday Evening Post. ![]()
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