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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Grateful Dead

THIS DARKNESS GOT TO GIVE

I was once repulsed by the band’s music, fans, and hippie iconography—but at the lowest point of my life, I got on the bus and never looked back.

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Photo illustration of a photograph of The Grateful Dead on top of psychedelic backgrounds.
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