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It was a new age, one called the Age of Aquarius, with a restless, ideological generation full of a reverence for new worlds opening up to new ideas. When the Beatles introduced the mystique of India to pop culture, the Hippie Trail was established as hip adventurers traveled overland from Europe to Kathmandu and India. Hunter was not among these hipsters. Still bitter over the way he was treated as a Marine combat veteran home from the Vietnam War,...
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Writing his Master's thesis, Wilson hears of the movie about America's defense of South Korea against the Communists. He knows people who fought in that war. It's more than history to him-it's personal. He must go. As an extra, he'll have a real view of what happened, experience it for himself. Sandra, a fellow Texan, meets Wilson on the flight from Dallas to Seoul. With her good looks and academic interests, she becomes a good friend immediately,...
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Jericho, just out of the Marines, returns to his roots in Texas only to face the anti-war movement that demonizes all Vietnam vets. He needs to sort through his life away from all that, and in his travels he stumbles upon a Shangri-La called the Lake District of England. There is peace and serenity around those lakes. And a girl-a beautiful, soulful girl he meets while working in the restaurant of a luxury hotel. Gail is deep and intellectual, a mother-earth...
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Elon loved traveling the world. The complexity of being a Marine from Texas and of the sixties generation stirred a curiosity that led him to Taiwan, a small Chinese island. Life in a country that spoke a language he would never understand, one with an exotic history and culture, where he found himself broke and needing a job while surviving a near-death experience, fit the bill for his adventurous spirit. But nothing enticed him like meeting Brigitte,...
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Their rendezvous soon turns into a courtship when Fay asks Dutch to stay and he gladly agrees. San Diego, where he'd entered the Marine Corps a few years before, is suddenly much more attractive-it's Fay's town. This is where he wants to stay. Fay isn't the hippie chick he had thought she was when they first met, but she does make everything seem easy…and with so much happiness and love. She questions his job choices and gives her parents crazy...
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