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We want Miss America, not Ms. Flamingo Park<\/em><\/p>\n

In less than 24 hours of hitchhiking, my sister & I wished for and got breakfast, wished for and got some cold beer (wished for and avoided being murdered), and now, a third of the way to California, we really, really hoped the next car that stopped to pick us up was a hippie, with long hair, smoking pot.<\/p>\n

And . . . just as the rednecks\u2019 car went out-of-view . . . we got our next ride:  a driver with long hair heading to Jackson, Tennessee to see his girlfriend, who instantly fired up a joint.  At that point we weren\u2019t wishing for any more great adventures.  Relaxing in a safe ride, sharing a joke, and re-telling our adventures, was plenty enough.<\/p>\n

The driver was very friendly, liked us, wished he could have been protesting with us in Flamingo Park, and invited us along to his girlfriend\u2019s . . . but he didn\u2019t tell us she was a rich Southern Belle and that he wanted to shock her parents by bringing along some hippies.  Her house (her parents\u2019 house) was a southern plantation, complete with a long, winding, tree-lined driveway and the house (mansion) had a wide veranda with white-washed pillars rising three stories.<\/p>\n

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At the pot smoker’s girlfriend’s<\/p><\/div>\n

His girlfriend invites us in and her parents were polite, although not hospitable.  When we got in the kitchen, it was clear why hippiedom would be a blow to their designs for their daughter, why we weren\u2019t really welcome, and why we needed to keep our story short.<\/p>\n

Even with our own parents, Murph and I would leave out the guns and drugs.  With these parents, to be most considerate we might avoid talking politics altogether, although you would think most moms & dads would love to hear how their kids actually spent an hour chatting on a park bench in Flamingo Park with Dr. Benjamin Spock who wrote the second greatest selling book of all time (next to the Bible) titled Baby and Child Care<\/span>, and maybe even tell about meeting Ron Kovics, famous for his book and movie, Born on the Fourth of July<\/span>.<\/p>\n

But, once we saw the clipping on the fridge, I said to our friend, “Hey, let’s get out of here.”  The clipping had two photos, one a female protestor from Flamingo Park in a tie-dyed shirt, and the other a beautiful southern belle in a long dress, and the caption said \u201cWe want Miss America, not Miss Flamingo Park.\u201d    At least it wasn\u2019t a picture of Murph.<\/p>\n

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