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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.

Anthony L. Fisher
Anthony L. Fisher 

Senior Opinion Editor

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Anthony L. Fisher

Anthony L. Fisher

Senior Opinion Editor

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