THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I waited around for a little while, but then decided to leave, so I thanked them for the joint and left looking for a diversion from this bunch.  It wasn’t until years later while reading The Family that I remembered that bus. It was described in the book exactly as I remembered it. Those girls were Squeaky Fromme, Susan Atkins, Mary Brunner… I just missed meeting Charlie Manson by five minutes.

Mueller/Walking, 1990

Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die.  You simply lose your body.  You will be the same except you won’t have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes.  You will be released from sexual obsessions.  You will not have drug addictions.  You will not need alcohol.  You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease.  You will be free.

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