Flashback sympthy4@mail.com .Communes village of nyc 1967; 'Electric Circus' etc. Dancing to 'American Woman' with a Puerto Rican young man who was leaving for 'Nam that week;did he ever come back; brother worked Bronx Zoo. Tripping and holding hands with a group dancing through the snow in Central Park, black mohawked hippie 'Sudden', Puerto Rican hippie 'Groovy' and others. I went by 'Sunshine' aka Karen/Kati. Free Health Clinics, Free Food Banks, Free Safe Living at Communes..in NYC; upstate, rural; connected with Morehouse commune in Ca? A couple with a buckskin jacket;Scientology centers. Pot and psychedelics were the scene. Only later when heroin hit the streets did the scene get ugly. Avoid and go to Summer Of Love San Francisco and became a writer for the Berkely Barb and KPFA Radio 1969-1972. What happened to all these people; the purity of the compaderie, the love movement, in a time when, now, love seems to be a dirty word.