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The Three Second Kiss...and No Tongues! (opens the original)
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The Axe in the Study (opens the original)
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HELL BENT FOR LEATHER: A short history of the leather jacket... (opens the original)
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This Merlot is an Ungrateful Bitch, Waiter... (opens the original)
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The Many Loves of Hoaky-Doakie (opens the original)
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More flashback images from my Berzerkeley days. Some of them involving love interests, some merely good friends, soul-mates and/or members of the expanded Cuatro Amigos mob I’m already explained elsewhere. All remarkably alive, vibrant, intelligent and self-actualised. A number were students in both undergrad and grad studies at UCB but no druggies (excluding an occasional doobie or two), no substance abusers (except for a few recreational winos), no karmic losers. Many of them highly trained me
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