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I grew up in a very simple, rather poor uh family in rural Minnesota. My father was a small dairy farmer and um the family was not really religious, although the most of the kids and I did go to church whenever we could. My dad was so busy that he was never able to go. Um and um it was um it was a little austere. You know, I always kind of wanted to wish that I was living in the city so I could get out and do more things and be more active. But um in retrospect, it was a very u idyllic upbringing because we were in the country. We had homegrown vegetables all the time and fresh milk from the cows. And so it was actually a very healthy upbringing. But when I became a teenager, of course, I rebelled against all of that and uh I wanted to do something different and I tried my best to get away from it all. Um, and I ended up, um, my parents at one point moved to Oregon to possibly buy a farm there. And I ended up leaving home and going down to San Francisco with a friend. And I happened to be there in 1967 in the summer of love.

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