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32 🎞️VIDEO🎞️ What has happened to the 1960s hippies, and where are they now?


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Vocabulary: 

To tag along: 

go along with, often uninvited; "my younger brother often tagged along when I went out with my friends" accompany - go or travel along... (see The Free Dictionary.) 

To settle down:

to begin to live a quiet and steady life by getting a regular job, getting married, etc.  (see merriam-webster)

Upbringing:

early trainingespecially : a particular way of bringing up a child

Burgeois: a middle-class person, 

weed: (1) tobacco products

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Those that still live are now people in their seventies or eighties, and probably someone’s grandparents. Some will have adapted to a more conservative lifestyle. Others not so much.

My parents are that kind. They met in 67 and spent a few years traveling and living experiences… with little me tagging along, until I had to be schooled and they settled down. They were not as ideologically motivated as other hippies were, but they wanted to feel free from their conservative upbringing.

That’s us in Ibiza, around ‘71 I think.

After that we lived in Paris for a few years before moving to Spain. Times changed and new things were happening, being a hippie wasn’t as cool anymore, maybe their life became a bit more bourgeois, but they’ve always been (and still are) unconventional people in many ways.

Now they’re old and they have three grandchildren (my sister’s kids). They live quite simply on the pension they have left, maybe my father sells a painting, or my mother gets a modelling gig being the granny in a commercial, but they don’t need much as long as they’re happy and healthy.

Well, ma likes her little bag of weed, but it’s medicinal ok?

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Quora knows best - For English learners and othersBy Daniel Goodson